Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …

Virginia: the Founding of Jamestown

Spiro Bolos
October 15, 2011

Virginia: the Founding of Jamestown

England's slow start / Plans for Virginia / Dale and Sandys / Relations with Indigenous Americans / Origins of slavery

Spiro Bolos

October 15, 2011
Tweet

More Decks by Spiro Bolos

Other Decks in Education

Transcript

  1. 1.England’s Slow Start 2.Plans for Virginia 3.Sir Thomas Dale, 1610s

    4.Sir Edwin Sandys, 1618-19 5.Relations with Indigenous Americans 6.Origins of Slavery 7.Conclusions
  2. “The chief Design of all Parties concern’d was to fetch

    away the Treasure from thence, aiming more at sudden Gain than to form any regular Colony.” – Robert Beverly, 1705
  3. 80%

  4. 80%

  5. “thatt notheinge was Spared to mainteyne Lyfe and to doe

    those things which seame incredible, as to digge upp deade corpes outt of graves and to eate them. And some have Licked upp the Bloode which hathe fallen from their weake fellowes.”
  6. “that nothing was Spared to maintain Life and to do

    those things which seem incredible, as to dig up dead corpses out of graves and to eat them. And some have Licked up the Blood which had fallen from their weak fellows.”
  7. “that nothing was Spared to maintain Life and to do

    those things which seem incredible, as to dig up dead corpses out of graves and to eat them. And some have Licked up the Blood which had fallen from their weak fellows.”
  8. “that nothing was Spared to maintain Life and to do

    those things which seem incredible, as to dig up dead corpses out of graves and to eat them. And some have Licked up the Blood which had fallen from their weak fellows.”
  9. Notes Muster Date Date of Arrival Ship Age Corporation Location

    Status Muster Name servant servant servant servant
  10. “By the time of Portuguese colonization of South America, the

    term “negro” [negros da terra] had become almost synonymous with ‘slave’ in the Portuguese language” (13). – Nishida, Slavery and Identity
  11. October 1670 - ACT XII. What tyme Indians to serve.

    “WHEREAS some dispute have arisen whither Indians taken in warr by any other nation, and by that nation that taketh them sold to the English, are sevants for life or terme of yeares,
  12. October 1670 - ACT XII. What time Indians to serve.

    “WHEREAS some disputes have arisen whether Indians taken in war by any other nation, and by that nation that took them sold to the English, are servants for life or term of years,
  13. It is resolved and enacted that all servants not being

    christians imported into this colony by shipping shall be slaves for their lives; but what shall come by land shall serve, if boyes or girles, untill thirty yeares of age, if men or women twelve yeares and no longer.”
  14. It is resolved and enacted that all servants not being

    Christians imported into this colony by shipping shall be slaves for their lives; but [who] shall come by land shall serve, if boys or girls, until thirty years of age, if men or women twelve years and no longer.”