The Jamestown Brides: The untold story of England's 'maids for Virginia by Jennifer Potter

The Jamestown Brides: The untold story of England's 'maids for Virginia

Jennifer Potter

384 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced

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In 1621, fifty-six English women crossed the Atlantic in response to the Virginia Company of London's call for maids 'young and uncorrupt' to make wives for the planters of its new colony in Virginia. The English had settled there just fourteen ye...

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