Author : Kristalyn Marie Shefveland
Release : 2010
Genre :
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
GET EBOOK
Book Synopsis 'Wholly Subjected'? by : Kristalyn Marie Shefveland
Download or read book 'Wholly Subjected'? written by Kristalyn Marie Shefveland. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation argues that Native interaction with Europeans fundamentally shaped the social, economic, political, and diplomatic landscape of Virginia. While the traditional narrative focuses on the early contact period from 1607 to 1622 and then the events of 1676, I argue that between 1646 and 1718, everyday negotiation between Native Americans and English settlers shaped Virginia history in a variety of ways. This dissertation examines Anglo-Indian exchange and engagement utilizing court cases, laws, trade logs, personal letters, and archaeological and anthropological data to examine the ways that early English colonists interacted with Native Americans I argue it is impossible to understand colonial Virginia and posit that colonists and Indians acting together and against one another shaped the contours of Virginia and this study improves the narrative of Virginia by arguing against the declension model of Anglo-Indian interaction, rather, I argue that the Native Americans in Virginia persisted and played an important role in the colony after 1646. This project studies Anglo-Indian interaction and contends that it played a central role in the larger narrative of the colonial plantation South and of the Indian experience. Native Americans provided a source of income by working with and for Virginia colonists via the skins and slave trade, shaped the geography of the colony through their control of the interior, led to deep divisions and at times ineffective rule within the colonial assembly, created issues of profit desires and control in the realm of assimilation and education, and were enslaved alongside Africans in the early plantation economy. An understanding of these topics leads to a vastly improved narrative of Virginia colonial history.