The #AngloPowhatanWars are three conflicts between the #VirginiaCompany colony #Jamestown and the #Powhatan nation. The third began #ThisDayInHistory in 1644 and resulted in a hard boundary between the two peoples... which lasted only until 1677, as #genocide was always implied.

It’s time @ukparliament.parliament.uk faces its #colonial legacy from the #Indianocean #Slave #Trade + #EastIndiaTradeCompany & it’s competitor the Company of #Scotland to The #London Company division of the #VirginiaCompany — the entire #UK must ask why it remains #complicit via #politicalamnesia.

However, #KingJamesI also granted a monopoly on #tobacco to the #VirginiaCompany, in exchange for a tax of 1 shilling / pound.

Image of lyrics to a seventeenth-century ballad superimposed by the title, author, and abstract of a Huntington Library Quarterly Article: This article studies colonial promotion in broadside ballads written in support of colonial endeavors or commissioned by joint-stock companies. Notably, these ballads target popular audiences, seeking investment from all members of society. The three case studies of ballads presented here (focusing on the Virginia colony, the Western Design, and the Darien scheme) demonstrate that colonial endeavors were pitched toward the common population, highlighting the importance placed on small-scale investments. Examining rhetoric and nontextual elements, such as musical tunes, this article analyzes the discourse of national and religious sympathies and the ballads’ emphasis on material wealth, which provided motivation for investment.

Duncan Frost looks at broadside ballads written to support English colonization in the seventeenth century, illuminating strategies and motivations in three different colonial projects. #earlymodern #ballads #virginiacompany #darien
muse.jhu.edu/article/949378