Justine’s Reviews > Old Dominion, New Commonwealth: A History of Virginia, 1607–2007 > Status Update

Wars of succession to wars of control
French & Indian War over Ohio Valley settlement (poorly defined bounds, Treaty of 6 Nations of Iroquois, opposing claims)
Great Valley of VA/Shenandoah Valley
Spotswood ventures (grants, order of knights, Spotslyvania & Brunswick, no quitrents)
Immigration: German & Scotch-Irish (diffs in displacement & settlement)
Diff society from older area (no plantations, limited slavery)

Debate on capital locale; new gov Lee
Idyllic society on outside, new struggles
-Recession on tobacco bc of war
-“Empire of Goods”: dependency on Brit merchants, high amts of debt
-Decline in “civic virtue” (electoral practices)
-Growing religious dissenters; Great Awakening & Separate Baptists (break from Anglican authority)
-Fear around slaves (revolts & runaways)
-Affectionate childrearing & roles of women

Rising patriarch power (racial, gender, political)
Uneasy Kingdoms
Tobacco growth & shipment
Consignment & factor
Great Chain of Being in VA
Households: husbands, women (power, job), children, servants & slaves (criminal influx)
Slave society (ownership, life, family ties, Tidewater v Piedmont)
Ties of kinship & friends; neighborhoods & parishes
Freeholders vote, decision-making & variables
Burgesses v Council & govs

Middle Plantation Treaty: natives now selling land to colonists (overall pop decline, no longer major players)
Culpeper new gov, put burgesses down
Planters rebelled bc low tobacco prices (cut plants) Beverly gained money from this
Effingham in, legal changes
Glorious Revolution, changes again (Board of Trade)
Religious war in France (Huguenots settle)
Planters in power, fraud, no reform
Compare/contrast w/ England

Royal Adventurers/African Co: monopoly on slave trade
Most went to W Indies; then shift to VA
Perpetual “stock”
Pop #’s
Cultural blend, fear of assembly
Plots & rebels; harsher laws
Bacon’s Rebellion:
-More native attacks, no act from Berkeley
-Ppl sought land, Bacon asked commission; Ber said no
-Bacon Laws
-Ba fired, got wish; ousted Be & ruled; burned Jamestown; died
-Be hung many, replaced
Struggle 4 land

Large planters w/ power (Byrd, Carter), middle used credit, small sold up or on river
Tobacco in mil
Indentured servitude:
-Tidewater area
-1/2 midcentury workforce
-Semiproperty (contract)
-Controlled marriage
-Fines for bastards, lack of parental rights
-Gained lands under VA Co era, not so under crown (poverty, bitter)
Less Eng emigrants
Slavery increase, racism, sue for freedom by religion/parent
Interracial law

Cromwell in, restricted trade & Treaty of Jamestown (commonwealth)
Cavalier State, most pop servants or middle
Period of few changes
Quakers in, then out
Navigation Act took Dutch trade out, 1st Anglo-Dutch War
Gov changes, Berkeley back
Old Dominion
B wants to diversify, Eng monopolizes, VA in Econ depression
2 more wars
Planter elite, intercolonial trade, plantations; wealth; power
Northern Neck land, Baron Fairfax

Patterns of land ownership, racial and class distinctions, politics, gender relations all cementing
Rebellions on way
William Berkeley new royal gov, diversifying the trade & crop profile; supported exploration & “peace” with natives
General Assembly -> House of Burgesses & Council of State (bicameral)
Civil war in England, VA neutral but not Berkeley; views against Puritans & Catholics; more trade with Dutch

Expansion to Henricus & Bermuda 100
Kidnapping & marriage of Pocahontas, end of 1st Anglo-Indian War
J Rolfe opens up tobacco market, profit
Great Charter of 1618 (headright land distribute)
More settlers
House of Burgesses/Great Assembly
More starving bc tobacco
Great Assault
Crown colony under Charles I
Levels of governance & parishes
Gov Harvey
Women, child servants, racism rising
Expansion & end of Powhatans

Virginia Company formed, new try made pushed by pop increase and land cutoffs
Newport leads, started at Point Comfort but settled on “James Island”
Fear & distrust btw Powhatans and Tassantassas (squatters)
Lazy colonists, death by disease, saved by trade
John Smith saved ppl, then was “saved” by Pocahontas (likely a ritual)
Reorganizing, Smith out, Ratcliffe in then dead, food low, canabolism, Thomas G in