The Jamestown Brides
The untold story of England’s ‘maids for Virginia’
by Jennifer Potter
🔰 The Jamestown Brides – CLICK HERE 🔰
- Format: hardcover, 384 pages
- Release date: October 4, 2018
- Language: english
- Genres: history, historical, american
- Places: Jamestown, Virginia
- ISBN: 9781782399131 (1782399135)
- Author: Jennifer Potter
- Publisher: Atlantic Books
About The Book
In 1621, fifty-six English women crossed the Atlantic in response to the Virginia Company of London’s call for maids ‘young and uncorrupt’ to make wives for the planters of its new colony in Virginia. The English had settled there just fourteen years previously and the company hoped to root its unruly menfolk to the land with ties of family and children.
While the women travelled of their own accord, the company was in effect selling them at a profit for a bride price of 150 lbs of tobacco for each woman sold. The rewards would flow to investors in the near-bankrupt company. But what did the women want from the enterprise? Why did they agree to make the dangerous crossing to a wild and dangerous land, where six out of seven European settlers died within their first few years — from dysentery, typhoid, salt water poisoning and periodic skirmishes with the native population? And what happened to them in the end?
Delving into company records and original sources on both sides of the Atlantic, Jennifer Potter tracks the women’s footsteps from their homes in England to their new lives in Virginia. Giving voice to these forgotten women of America’s early history, she triumphantly invites the reader to journey alongside the brides as they travel into a perilous and uncertain future.
EPUB The Jamestown Brides by Jennifer Potter iOS on Books-a-Million. Online ebook The Jamestown Brides buy cheap. FictionBook book The Jamestown Brides Jennifer Potter download on Book Depository.
Hardcover ebook The Jamestown Brides read on Android. FB2 book The Jamestown Brides download for iPhone on Barnes & Noble. MP3 The Jamestown Brides Jennifer Potter.
.
