Overview
Imported America gives us a true account of the first years of America's History. From the men who privately funded the discovery of the New World, Raleigh's first two attempts of colonizing, details of both of the lost colonies of Roanoke to The Virginia Company that settled the first permanent colony at Jamestown -this book gives us their accounts. Never before has one book included such a collection of original writings, state papers, ancient manuscripts, diaries, and correspondence dating back to 1497 into the late 1700s. Imported America gives us an illuminating look into the first years of Jamestown, and how the survival of the enterprise of tobacco, the colony itself. depended on importing labor. In the words of 17th century writers, the author gives us a look into history that describes unimaginable hardships endured by the first Americans. In a letter written in 1611 on the state of Virginia, Sir Thomas Dale wrote there were "continual whippings and extraordinary punishments, such as hanging, shooting, breaking on the wheel, and even burning alive? This book is a Historians dream! Many interesting histories have been overlooked, ead original court documents of Virginia that give horrific insight to the treatment and conditions that bounded white servitude. America began as a cooperation, its sole purpose to export the fruits of this vast land back to England. Labor was in high demand, and soon flesh became a commodity. America's first import was white servants to farm the fields, fell the trees and build the foundations.'Tis dishonorable, in that we are upbraided by all other Nations that know that trade for selling our own countrymen for the commodities of those places. And, I affirm, that I have been told by the Dutch and others, that we English were worse than the Turks, for that they sold strangers only, and we sold our own countrymen.'
- | Author: Kelli Rea
- | Publisher: Cavaliers Publishing
- | Publication Date: Oct 28, 2019
- | Number of Pages: 313 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1946292044
- | ISBN-13: 9781946292049
