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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"seventeenth-century Virginia"”.
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"Under an Ill Tongue": Witchcraft and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Virginia
… of religion, both institutional and private, in Virginia's dealings with witchcraft during the seventeenth century. The witch trials of New England and Europe during the 1600s have tended to overshadow those that simultaneously took place in Virginia, leaving historians to prematurely regard …
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"""20. and odd Negroes"": Virginia and the international system of slavery, 1619-1660"
… dissertation explores the relationship between Virginia’s early development and the transatlantic slave trade. This study locates Virginia as a colonizer and an enslaver in the context of the developing international system of slavery and the major upheavals that transformed both West Central …
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Food in seventeenth-century Tidewater Virginia: a method for studying historical cuisines
… sounds or the experience of listening. Food in seventeenth-century Virginia serves well as a test subject for a historical method. Historians traditionally have neglected daily life and common people in studies of that period, concentrating instead on politics and the elite. More recently, …
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New World Drugs in England's Early Empire
… and understood in early modern England? In the seventeenth century, England’s first empire was being established and an increasing abundance of medicinal plants arrived in London from across the Atlantic. In this thesis, I argue that commercial and political imperatives drove the production, …