Turbulent Virginia: Pirate Base...Royal Colony: England Revises Approach to Colonization and Establishes Royal Colony of Virginia
England and its Virginia Company surrogate take steps to revise their approach to colonization yet again. They increase incentives for families willing to migrate, attempt to attract merchants rather than aristocrats, and develop agricultural produc...
Turbulent Virginia: Pirate Base...Royal Colony: Relationship between Early English Settlers and Native Americans
The people of Jamestown would not have survived at all without the assistance of Native Americans. They taught the settlers how to plant corn and give them gifts of food. The paradox of Jamestown, as Edmond Morgan describes it, is that the settlers,...
Turbulent Virginia: Pirate Base...Royal Colony: Indentured Servitude
The majority of colonists who immigrate to the Chesapeake in the 17th century pay for their passage by working as indentured servants for a specified number of years. Initially men outnumber women six to one, so willing are they to take the gamble t...
Turbulent Virginia: Pirate Base...Royal Colony: Lost Colony of Roanoke, The
Over 100 men, women, and children leave for Roanoke in 1587 to establish the family-centered colony Raleigh envisions. The commander of the expedition John White returns to England for more supplies and families. He plans to return in a few months b...
Turbulent Virginia: Pirate Base...Royal Colony: Virginia Company Investments Spawn New Colony
London investors are now becoming interested in financing overseas ventures. Initially they were looking to make money by establishing trading posts like the French or privateering They turn to colonization only as a last resort. The London Company,...