Title Virginia 1619 : slavery and freedom in the making of English America / edited by Paul Musselwhite, Peter C. Mancall, and James Horn

Published Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction / James Horn and Paul Musselwhite -- Before 1619 / Peter C. Mancall -- "The savages of Virginia our project" : the Powhatans in Jacobean political thought / Lauren Working -- Race, conflict, and exclusion in Ulster, Ireland, and Virginia / Nicholas Canny -- Virginia slavery in Atlantic context, 1550 to 1650 / Philip D. Morgan -- Bermuda and the beginnings of Black Anglo-America / Michael J. Jarvis -- "Poore Soules" : migration, labor, and visions for commonwealth in Virginia / Misha Ewen -- Private plantation : the political economy of land in early Virginia / Paul Musselwhite -- "A part of that commonwealth hetherto too much neglected" : Virginia's contested "publick" and the origins of the General Assembly / Alexander B. Haskell -- The company-commonwealth / Andrew Fitzmaurice -- "These doubtfull times, between us and the Indians" : Indigenous politics and the Jamestown Colony in 1619 / James D. Rice -- Brase's case : making slave law as customary law in Virginia's general court, 1619-1625 / Paul D. Halliday -- Virginia and the Amazonian alternative / Melissa N. Morris -- From John Smith to Adam Smith : Virginia and the founding conventions of English long-distance settler colonization / Jack P. Greene Summary This book 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index 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 Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 22, 2019) Subject African Americans -- Virginia -- History -- 17th century Indians of North America -- Virginia -- History -- 17th century Slavery -- Virginia -- History -- 17th century Democracy -- United States -- History HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775) African Americans Democracy Indians of North America Politics and government Slavery SUBJECT Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143765 Virginia -- Politics and government -- To 1775. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143773 Subject United States Virginia Genre/Form History Internet resources. Form Electronic book Author Musselwhite, Paul, editor. Mancall, Peter C., editor. Horn, James, 1953- editor ISBN 9781469651804 1469651807 9781469651811 1469651815

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