1. England’s Slow Start 2. Plans for Virginia 3. Sir Thomas Dale, 1610s 4. Sir Edwin Sandys, 1618-19 5. Indian Relations 6. Origins of Slavery 7. Conclusions

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.Indian Relations
6.Origins of Slavery
7.Conclusions

3. Jamestown, Va. (1607)

4. England’s Slow Start

5. Why?

6. Why?

7. Why?THE SPANISH ARMADA
(1588: RIP)

8. problem of finance

9. joint-stock company
London Co. or Virginia Co.

10. Plans for Virginia

11. “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

12. trading posts

13. trading posts

14. Indians, Settlers, Women?

15. mining

16. mining

17. citrus fruits

18. citrus fruits

19. citrus fruits

21. “The Stinking Weed”

22. 80%

23. 80%

24. “The Starving Time”

25. “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.”

26. “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.”

27. “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.”

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. Sir Thomas Dale
(1610s)

31. martial law

32. Sir Edwin Sandys
(1618-19)

35. “headright” system

36. indentured servants

37. families

38. “Tobacco Brides”?
1619

39. “one hundredth and fiftie [pounds]
of the best leafe Tobacco”.

40. The 17th Century Bachelorette?

41. colonial assembly (1619)

42. House of Burgesses

43. Indian Relations

44. Powhaten “babysitter”

47. Massacre of 1622

48. dissolved

49. royal colony

50. Slavery

51. 1619

52. 1670

57. 1619

58. 1619

59. treatment?

60. Interpretation #1

61. indentured servants

62. Interpretation #2

63. Interpretation #2

64. 1624/25 Muster

66. 1624/25 Muster

67. Name Muster Status Location Corporation Age Ship Date of
Arrival
Muster
Date
Notes

68. Name Muster Status Location Corporation Age Ship Date of
Arrival
Muster
Date
Notes
servant
servant
servant
servant

69. Were the Africans on the muster
slaves or indentured servants?

70. “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

72. Conclusions