This week the English decide to kidnapping the Powhatan princess, Pocahontas. We also cover the state of the colony in the 1610s, Pocahontas' trip to England in 1616, the early growth of the tobacco industry (tomacco references aplenty) and look at the creation of the first democratic American institution, Virginia's House of Burgesses.
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A History of the United States. A podcast charting the history of the United States of America from the foundation of Jamestown to the end of the cold war, covering political, military, economic, social and cultural history.
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Folge vom 12.11.2015Episode 10 - The Kidnapping of Pocahontas
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Folge vom 09.11.2015Episode 9 - False DawnThis week Jamestown attempts to rebuild itself under the governorship of Lord De La Warr, but things very quickly go horribly wrong. This is Jamestown, after all. Just another false dawn.
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Folge vom 06.11.2015Episode 8 - The Starving TimeThis week everything goes wrong. EVERYTHING GOES WRONG. Gates gets lost, hundreds starve to death, and Jamestown is abandoned. It's hard to see how things could be any worse.
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Folge vom 03.11.2015Episode 7 - A Fresh StartThis week Jamestown enters the Starving Time and in London the Virginia Company decides the colony needs a revolution.