The River where America Began: A Journey Along the JamesRowman & Littlefield, 2007 - 319 páginas From the establishment of the first permanent English colony at Jamestown in 1607 to the fall of Richmond in 1865, the James River has been instrumental in the formation of modern America. It was along the James that British and Native American cultures collided and, in a twisted paradox, the seeds of democracy and slavery were sown side by side. The culture crafted by Virginia's learned aristocrats, merchants, farmers, and frontiersmen gave voice to the cause of the American Revolution and provided a vision for the fledgling independent nation's future. Over the course of the United States' first century, the James River bore witness to the irreconcilable contradiction of a slave-holding nation dedicated to liberty and equality for all. When that intractable conflict ignited civil war, the James River served as a critical backdrop for the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history. As he guides readers through this exciting historical narrative, Deans gives life to a dynamic cast of characters including the familiar Powhatan, John Smith, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Benedict Arnold, and Robert E. Lee, as well as those who have largely escaped historical notoriety. The River Where America Began takes readers on a journey along the James River from the earliest days of civilization nearly 15,000 years ago through the troubled English settlement at Jamestown and finishes with Lincoln's tour of the defeated capital of Richmond in 1865. Deans traces the historical course of a river whose contributions to American life are both immeasurable and unique. This innovative history invites us all to look into these restless waters in a way that connects us to our past and reminds us of who we are as Americans. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-3 de 56
Página 16
... points , a more generic term for a stone that's been chipped and flaked into a point with a sort of beveled edge cut into its base that can be fitted into a notch cut into a shaft of wood . They were long thought of as this coun- try's ...
... points , a more generic term for a stone that's been chipped and flaked into a point with a sort of beveled edge cut into its base that can be fitted into a notch cut into a shaft of wood . They were long thought of as this coun- try's ...
Página 117
... point and , separately , sailed northward along the American coast . At the end of August , the White Lion sailed into the Chesapeake Bay and landed at the mouth of the James River , on a fingertip of land the Eng- lish had named Point ...
... point and , separately , sailed northward along the American coast . At the end of August , the White Lion sailed into the Chesapeake Bay and landed at the mouth of the James River , on a fingertip of land the Eng- lish had named Point ...
Página 118
... Point Comfort , " the tobacco entrepreneur John Rolfe reported several months later to Virginia Company treasurer Edwin Sandys . The ship , Rolfe wrote , " brought not anything but 20 and odd Negroes , which the governor and cape ...
... Point Comfort , " the tobacco entrepreneur John Rolfe reported several months later to Virginia Company treasurer Edwin Sandys . The ship , Rolfe wrote , " brought not anything but 20 and odd Negroes , which the governor and cape ...
Contenido
Yeokanta | 13 |
Lords of Navigation | 35 |
Virginia | 55 |
Derechos de autor | |
Otras 8 secciones no mostradas
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
aboard African African American army arrived assembly Bacon banks began Berkeley British Cactus Hill called centuries Chesapeake Bay chief colonists colony colony's Confederate Congress corn court decades downstream dozen early England English enslaved father fight force forest freedom Gabriel George ginia governor Hakluyt Henry historian House of Burgesses hundred Indians James River James River plantation Jamestown Jefferson John journey Kecoughtan killed King labor land later liberty Lincoln lives London miles militia Monacan named nation Native Americans Newport North Opechancanough Percy Peyton Randolph plantation planters Pocahontas political Powhatan president Randolph Richmond riverside royal servants settlers ships slavery slaves Smith South thousand tion tobacco took town Townshend Acts trade tribes troops Tsenacomoco Tuckahoe Union upstream village Virginia Company Virginia General Assembly Washington weeks Werowocomo William and Mary Williamsburg wrote York