The Jamestown Brides
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The Jamestown Brides
Narrated by:
Charlotte Strevens
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Narrated by:
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Charlotte Strevens
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By:
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Jennifer Potter
About this listen
In 1621, 57 women undertook a three-month journey to Jamestown after responding to an advert placed by the Virginia Company, looking for wives for its tobacco planters in the New Colony.
They travelled of their own free will, but the Company was effectively selling them at a profit, having set a bride price of 150lbs of tobacco for each woman. But what did the women want? Why did they make the perilous Atlantic crossing to a dangerous land, where six out of seven European settlers died within a few years?
Using company records and contemporary accounts, Jennifer Potter gives the Jamestown brides their voice.
©2018 Jennifer Potter (P)2018 Oakhill Publishing
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