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8. Powhattan, Jamestown and Tobacco

March 14, 2023June 1, 2023 carld7170 comment

The ‘Great Canoes’ on the Chesapeake In 1607, three English ships– Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery—made landfall in a country called Tsenacommacah. They picked a spot on a river, now called the James, that flowed into a bay, now called the Chesapeake. Tsenacommacah was about 100 miles by one hundred… Read more“8. Powhattan, Jamestown and Tobacco”

8. Jamestown and Powhattan
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Howard Zinn and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (top) and Marcus Rediker and Robin D.G. Kelley (below) are the giants of researching and retelling our continent's popular history 'from below'. This site humbly hopes to supplement them in a few ways, and hopefully with few mistakes on my part. But their books are the mother lode and to be at the top of any study list.

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