HISTORY 7A Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Powhatan, Indentured Servant, Soboth
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Lecture 6: the origins of slavery in virginia. There is a shift between colonization in south and central. America to north america, and the success of virginia is key to this shift. i. ii. iii. The virginia company collapses in 1624 because they just keep on sending new people to the colony to sustain it and that is ineffectual. They do begin fixing the problems after a certain amount of time. They get better leaders and start sending farmers and builders that can do hard labor b. When the english realize the indians are not going to just hand them things, they decide to steal things like food. i. ii. The english wanted to combine and colonize with the. The english try to play them off each other but the. The indians led a short uprising against them in. They hoped that the indians could work for them but the indigenous people of virginia refused.
