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"The company defined Virginia as the entire North American coast between 30º and 45ºN, and extending inland for 50 miles (80 kilometers). Virginia at one time stretched from southern Maine to California and encompassed all or part of 42 of the present 50 states, as well as Bermuda and part of the Canadian province of Ontario." (Gale group) At first, the men believed they had found paradise. The climate appeared mild, and the natives had reacted friendly. John Smith wrote, "Heaven and earth never agreed better to frame a place for man's habitations." (Colonial History) Then, the beautiful new world turned to blistering heat, swarms of insects, unfit water, starvation, fierce winters, Indian attacks, and shiploads of inappropriately-prepared "Colonists" "whose breeding," a contemporary said, "never knew what a day's labor meant." These were men, often lesser scions of nobility, with no future in overpopulated England, who had been lured by the Virginia Company with promises of land and wealth--much as people were lured into going to California during the Gold Rush. But there was no gold in Virginia, and these "prospectors" didn't know how to farm, didn't know how to hunt, and--possibly feeling betrayed by the Virginia Company's promises, and lacking any land of their own--were not known for
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- John Smith wrote, "Heaven and earth never agreed better to frame a place for man's habitations." (Colonial History) Then, the beautiful new world turned to blistering heat, swarms of insects, unfit water, starvation, fierce winters, Indian attacks, and shiploads of inappropriately-prepared "Colonists" "whose breeding,"
- Norman Davies explains, "One of the most enterprising--if unsavory—trading practices of the time was the so-called triangular trade. Merchants and shippers would purchase slaves off the coast of Africa for New England rum, then sell the slaves in the West Indies where they would buy molasses to bring home for sale to local rum producers" ...
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The only man, King James, Norman Davies, Edward Dodson, Taylor,
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Church of England,
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New England, Virginia, Jamestown, West Indies, London, California, Powhatan’s River, Roanoke, Bermuda, Massachusetts Bay, Maine, Africa, Pennsylvania, Chesapeake Bay, Delaware, America, Canadian, Ontario.,
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