![]() ![]() Kelso, Jamestown, the Buried Truthīenjamin Woolley, Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America James Horn, A Land As God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America James Horn, 1619: Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy Joseph Kelly, Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America’s Origin (Bloomsbury, 2018) To explain this overlooked chapter of US history, I speak with Joseph Kelly, the author of a new book, Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America’s Origin. But there’s a lot more to the Jamestown story that’s really important to know about when considering the origins of the United States and American democracy. Plymouth, MA came to be seen as the New World utopia in contrast to the Jamestown dystopia. And then in 1619 – 400 years ago this year – Jamestown was the site of the arrival of the first shipload of enslaved Africans. Why? Because, apart from periodic wars with local Native Americans, Massachusetts thrived, while further south in Virginia the Jamestown colony suffered through several periods of starvation and near extinction. But this view overlooks Jamestown, Virginia which had been established 13 years earlier in 1607. ![]() ![]() Most Americans tend to think of their nation as beginning in Massachusetts with the 1620 establishment of a colony at Plymouth by the Pilgrims. This week at In The Past Lane, the American History podcast, we take a close look at America’s early colonial origins. ![]()
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