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16th, 17th century
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Tee Yee Neen Ho Ga Row, Emperor of the Six Nations by John Verelst.
Photograph: © Library and Archives Canada John Verelst (vers 1648-1734) vers 1710 C-092415 © Bibliothèque et Archives Canada / Musée du portrait du Canada
Brave new world Two remarkable exhibitions of portraits of Native Americans by some of the first European settlers reveal a great deal about the early days of imperial power. But how much were these paintings mere colonial propaganda, asks Linda Colley The Guardian Review p. 12 21 April 2007 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/apr/21/art.history
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http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/edu/ViewLoit
Rice cultivation is introduced into Carolina.
Slave importation increases dramatically 1694
https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/1694.html
1671
Bacon's Rebellion
In Virginia, black slaves and black and white indentured servants band together to participate in Bacon's Rebellion
https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/slavery/
on Sept. 8, 1664, English soldiers took control of the Dutch city of New Amsterdam, on Manhattan Island.
They soon renamed it after the Duke of York, brother to King Charles II.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/08/
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/08/
1662
Virginia enacts a law of hereditary slavery meaning that a child born to an enslaved mother inherits her slave status
https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/1662.html
1657
The Flushing Remonstrance
The Flushing Remonstrance is an important historical document that was signed on December 27, 1657 in Flushing, Queens, by a group of English citizens seeking to defend religious freedom, particularly the right to practice religions besides the official faith of the New Netherland Colony, the Dutch Reformed Church.
Many believe that the Flushing Remonstrance, in its promotion of religious toleration, served as a model for the right to religious freedom granted by the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights. http://www.queenslibrary.org/irc/gallery/index.htm - broken link
Thomas Morton c. 1579–1647
early colonist in North America from Devon, England.
He was a lawyer, writer, and social reformer known for studying American Indian culture, and he founded the colony of Merrymount, located in Quincy, Massachusetts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
On November 18, 1633, a book went to press in London.
Its author, Thomas Morton, had been exiled from the Puritan colonies in Massachusetts for the crimes of drinking, carousing, and – crucially – building social and economic ties with Native people.
Back in England, Morton wrote down his vision for what America could become.
A very different vision than that of the Puritans.
But the book wouldn't be published that day.
It wouldn't be published for years.
Because agents for the Puritan colonists stormed the press and destroyed every copy.
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/07/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/07/
1641
Massachusetts Body of Liberties
One of the earliest American assertions of rights, the 1641 Massachusetts Body of Liberties, delineated rights against everything from banishment to dismemberment but subjected them to regulation by the legislature.
The community could take these actions only according to rules known in advance and equally applicable to all.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/
1641
Massachusetts is the first colony to legalize slavery
https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/
1636
Former Puritan leader Roger Williams (1603-1683) is expelled from Massachusetts in 1636
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/
1630 onwards
20,000 Puritans emigrate to America from England
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/
1620
Pilgrims arrive in Massachusetts
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/
1619
At Jamestown, Virginia, approximately 20 captive Africans are sold into slavery in the British North American colonies
https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/
How The New England Colonists Embraced The Slave Trade
https://www.npr.org/2016/06/21/
1606-1610
Jamestown, Virginia
We know little about the identity of the young woman whose remains were recently discovered at Jamestown, though the investigative team — of which I am part — calls her Jane.
We know that she was one of 300 battered and hungry settlers who arrived in the colony in mid-August 1609, two years after it was founded, aboard one of half a dozen ships that had limped into Jamestown after being caught at sea in a hurricane.
The fleet had been scattered, the colony’s leaders shipwrecked on Bermuda, provisions brought from England ruined, and settlers injured.
To make matters worse, the colony was wholly unprepared to support them.
From the very beginnings of the Virginia colony, the English had struggled to feed themselves, relying instead on trading for corn with local Indian peoples or taking food by force.
By the summer of 1609, the Indians were no longer willing to supply the increasing numbers of colonists with food, and by October a full-scale war erupted.
Indian warriors sealed off Jamestown Island, trapping hundreds of men, women and children within the palisade of the fort on starvation rations with little hope of relief from outside. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/opinion/consuming-colonists.html
https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/september-10/ https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/may-14/ https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/36913
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/01/
Jamestown, Virginia — the first successful English colony in North America — was a difficult place, to say the least.
Most of the colonists who arrived in 1607 died shortly thereafter.
https://www.npr.org/2015/07/28/
https://www.npr.org/2015/07/28/
1609
Henry Hudson (c. 1560/70s – 1611?) explores the Hudson river
https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/picamer/paDiscover.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2009/sep/08/henry-hudson-new-york
https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2009/09/manhattan.html Sept. 2, 2009
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/08/29/
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/nyregion/30hudson.html
Portraits of Native Americans by some of the first European settlers
First British paintings of Native American chiefs at National Portrait Gallery
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/apr/21/
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/mar/08/
John White c. 1540 – c. 1593 British artist who was first to capture the wonder and mystery of the New World
https://www.britishmuseum.org/ https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v29/n07/peter-campbell/at-the-british-museum https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/brave-new-world-80243214/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2007/mar/08/
Native American agriculture
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/06/
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