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Virginia 1619 : slavery and freedom in the making of English America / edited by Paul Musselwhite, Peter C. Mancall, and James Horn.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Virginia--History--17th century.
- African Americans.
- Indians of North America--Virginia--History--17th century.
- Indians of North America.
- Slavery--Virginia--History--17th century.
- Slavery.
- Democracy--United States--History.
- Democracy.
- Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- Virginia.
- Virginia--Politics and government--To 1775.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (331 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Williamsburg, Virginia ; Chapel Hill : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- Virginia 1619 provides an opportunity to reflect on the origins of English colonialism around the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic world. As the essays here demonstrate, Anglo-Americans have been simultaneously experimenting with representative government and struggling with the corrosive legacy of racial thinking for more than four centuries. Virginia, contrary to popular stereotypes, was not the product of thoughtless, greedy, or impatient English colonists. Instead, the emergence of stable English Atlantic colonies reflected the deliberate efforts of an array of actors to establish new societies based on their ideas about commonwealth, commerce, and colonialism. Looking back from 2019, we can understand that what happened on the shores of the Chesapeake four hundred years ago was no accident.
- Notes:
- "Although this volume centers on the events of a sweltering summer in the Chesapeake Tidewater, it began life in the mountains of northern New England. It grew out of a conference hosted at Dartmouth College in the spring of 2017 ..."--Acknowledgments page.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908587-0-2
- 979-88-908587-1-9
- 1-4696-5181-5
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