Virginia 1619 slavery and freedom in the making of English America

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

Other author/creator	Musselwhite, Paul.
Other author/creator	Mancall, Peter C.
Other author/creator	Horn, James P. P.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Description	320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Oxford UNC Press Titles
Subject(s)	African Americans--Virginia --History --17th century. Indians of North America--Virginia --History --17th century. Slavery--Virginia --History --17th century. Democracy--United States --History. Virginia--History --Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Virginia--Politics and government --To 1775.

Abstract	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.
General note	"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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2018058603
ISBN	9781469652016 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	9781469651798 (pbk : alk. paper)

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