12 How to make a successful plantation
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Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Abstract
Promoters of American colonies always had one eye on Ireland and on the poor record of England's plantation attempts there. The sudden growth of the colony, with tobacco plantations spreading on the best land along Virginia's highways, the rivers that run from the bay to the mountains in the west, forced the Indians to react. Virtue emerged as the central issue in every critique of England's colonial efforts. The kind of innovation represented by John Rolfe's experiments with tobacco involved a whole new conception of the Virginia experiment. The formation of the Massachusetts Bay Company, a decade after the development of the new design in Virginia, resulted in the massive migration of puritans to New England between 1630 and 1640. In 1635, the Providence Island Company won the right to issue letters of marque, which helped investors to recoup some of their outlay.
Abstract
Promoters of American colonies always had one eye on Ireland and on the poor record of England's plantation attempts there. The sudden growth of the colony, with tobacco plantations spreading on the best land along Virginia's highways, the rivers that run from the bay to the mountains in the west, forced the Indians to react. Virtue emerged as the central issue in every critique of England's colonial efforts. The kind of innovation represented by John Rolfe's experiments with tobacco involved a whole new conception of the Virginia experiment. The formation of the Massachusetts Bay Company, a decade after the development of the new design in Virginia, resulted in the massive migration of puritans to New England between 1630 and 1640. In 1635, the Providence Island Company won the right to issue letters of marque, which helped investors to recoup some of their outlay.
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- List of figures ix
- List of contributors xi
- Series editors’ preface xv
- Acknowledgements xvii
- 1 Introduction – 1641 1
- 2 Early modern violence from memory to history 17
- 3 The ‘1641 massacres’ 37
- 4 1641 in a colonial context 52
- 5 Towards a cultural geography of the 1641 rising/rebellion 71
- 6 Out of the blue 95
- 7 News from Ireland 115
- 8 Performative violence and the politics of violence in the 1641 depositions 134
- 9 Atrocities in the Thirty Years War 153
- 10 Why remember terror? 176
- 11 Language and conflict in the French Wars of Religion 197
- 12 How to make a successful plantation 219
- 13 An Irish Black Legend 236
- 14 Afterword 254
- Index 274
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- List of figures ix
- List of contributors xi
- Series editors’ preface xv
- Acknowledgements xvii
- 1 Introduction – 1641 1
- 2 Early modern violence from memory to history 17
- 3 The ‘1641 massacres’ 37
- 4 1641 in a colonial context 52
- 5 Towards a cultural geography of the 1641 rising/rebellion 71
- 6 Out of the blue 95
- 7 News from Ireland 115
- 8 Performative violence and the politics of violence in the 1641 depositions 134
- 9 Atrocities in the Thirty Years War 153
- 10 Why remember terror? 176
- 11 Language and conflict in the French Wars of Religion 197
- 12 How to make a successful plantation 219
- 13 An Irish Black Legend 236
- 14 Afterword 254
- Index 274
