Virginia: the Founding of Jamestown

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

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1. “Tobacco’s older than the gummint itself!”
2. 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
3. Jamestown, Va. (1607)
4. Jamestown, Va. (1607)
5. England’s Slow Start
6. Why?
7. Why?
8. Why? THE SPANISH ARMADA (1588: RIP)
9. problem of finance
10. joint-stock company London Co. or Virginia Co.
11. Plans for Virginia
12. “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
13. trading posts
14. trading posts
15. Indigenous, Settlers, Women?
16. Indigenous, Settlers, Women?
17. mining
18. mining
19. citrus fruits
20. citrus fruits
21. citrus fruits
23. “The Stinking Weed”
24. 80%
25. 80%
26. “The Starving Time”
27. “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.”
28. “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.”
29. “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.”
30. “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.”
32. Sir Thomas Dale (1610s)
34. martial law
35. Sir Edwin Sandys (1618-19)
38. “headright” system
39. indentured servants
40. families
41. “Tobacco Brides?” 1619
42. “Tobacco Brides?” Make “the men more setled [and] lesse moveable” — Sandys
43. “one hundredth and fiftie [pounds] of the best leafe Tobacco”.
44. The 17th Century Bachelorette?
45. colonial assembly (1619)
46. House of Burgesses colonial assembly (1619)
47. Relations with Indigenous Americans?
48. Relations with Indigenous Americans?
49. Powhaten “babysitter”
52. Massacre of 1622
53. dissolved
54. royal colony
55. Slavery
66. treatment?
67. Interpretation #1
68. indentured servants
72. Interpretation #2
73. Interpretation #2
74. 1624/25 Muster
77. 1624/25 Muster
78. Notes Muster Date Date of Arrival Ship Age Corporation Location Status Muster Name
79. Notes Muster Date Date of Arrival Ship Age Corporation Location Status Muster Name servant servant servant servant
80. Were the Africans on the muster slaves or indentured servants?
82. “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
83. 1670 law?
84. 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,
85. 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,
86. 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.”
87. 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.”
90. Conclusions