The Divided Dominion Social Conflict and Indian Hatred in Early Virginia / by Ethan A. Schmidt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schmidt, Ethan A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Powhatan Indians--Virginia--Government relations.

Powhatan Indians.

Powhatan Indians--Virginia--History--17th century.

Indians, Treatment of--Virginia--History--17th century.

Indians, Treatment of.

Bacon's Rebellion, 1676.

Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Virginia.

Virginia--Race relations--History--17th century.

Virginia--Social conditions--17th century.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015

Place of Publication:

Boulder : University Press of Colorado, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In The Divided Dominion, Ethan A. Schmidt examines the social struggle that created Bacon's Rebellion, focusing on the role of class antagonism in fostering violence toward native people in seventeenth-century Virginia. This provocative volume places a dispute among Virginians over the permissibility of eradicating Native Americans for land at the forefront in understanding this pivotal event. Myriad internal and external factors drove Virginians to interpret their disputes with one another increasingly along class lines. The decades-long tripartite struggle among elite whites, non-elite whites, and Native Americans resulted in the development of mutually beneficial economic and political relationships between elites and Native Americans. When these relationships culminated in the granting of rights-equal to those of non-elite white colonists-to Native Americans, the elites crossed a line and non-elite anger boiled over. A call for the annihilation of all Indians in Virginia united different non-elite white factions and molded them in widespread social rebellion. The Divided Dominion places Indian policy at the heart of Bacon's Rebellion, revealing the complex mix of social, cultural, and racial forces that collided in Virginia in 1676. This new analysis will interest students and scholars of colonial and Native American history.

Contents:

Being all friends and forever Powhatans: the early Anglo-Powhatan relationship at Jamestown

Hammerers and rough masons to prepare them: the First Anglo-Powhatan War, 1609-1614

Subduing the Indians and advancing the interests of the planters: the Second Anglo-Powhatan War and the rise of the tobacco elite, 1614-1632

If you did but see me you would weep: expectation versus reality in the lives of Virginia immigrants, 1609-1640

The best of times, the worst of times: the rise and decline of Sir William Berkeley's golden age, 1642-1674

To ruin and extirpate all Indians in general: the rebellion of Nathaniel Bacon

Epilogue: White unity and Indian survival.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781607323082

1607323087

OCLC:

903985808