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03658aim a22004455a 4500 001 D1218068757211EA9A5BA35697128E48 003 SILO 005 20200403011728 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 191202s2019 xxunnn es z n eng d 020 $a 1094005797 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 $a 9781094005799 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 028 42 $a MWT12359673 040 $a Midwest $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Potter, Jennifer, $d 1949- $e author. 245 14 $a The Jamestown brides : $b England's maids for Virginia $h [electronic resource] / $c Jennifer Potter. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a [United States] : $b Blackstone Publishing, $c 2019. 300 $a 1 online resource (1 audio file (10hr., 02 min.)) : $b digital. 506 $a Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 0 $a Read by Charlotte Strevens. 520 $a Jamestown, England's first real foothold in the New World, was fraught with danger-from starvation and disease to violent skirmishes between colonists and the native populations. Mortality rates were impossibly high: six out of seven settlers died within the first few years. How clear these and other perils were made to the fifty-six young women who left their homes and boarded ships in England in 1621, nearly fifteen years after Jamestown's founding, is not known. But we do know who they were. Their ages ranged from sixteen to twenty-eight, and they were deemed "young and uncorrupt." Each had a bride price of 150 pounds of tobacco set by the Virginia Company, which funded their voyage. Though the women had all gone of their own free will, they were to be sold into marriage, generating a profit for investors and helping ensure the colony's long-term viability. Without letters or journals (young women from middling classes had not generally been taught to write), Jennifer Potter turned to the Virginia Company's merchant lists-which were used as a kind of sales catalog for prospective husbands-as well as censuses, court records, the minutes of Virginia's General Assemblies, letters to England from their male counterparts, and other such accounts of the everyday life of the early colonists. In The Jamestown Brides, she spins a fascinating tale of courage and survival, exploring the women's lives in England before their departure and their experiences in Jamestown. Some were married before the ships left harbor. Some were killed in an attack by the native population only months after their arrival. A few never married at all. In telling the story of these "Maids for Virginia," Potter sheds light on life for women in early modern England and in the New World. 538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 0 $a Plantation owners' spouses $z Virginia $x History. 650 0 $a Women $z Virginia $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women $z Virginia $x History $y 17th century. 650 0 $a Plantation life $z Virginia $x History $y 17th century. 650 0 $a Arranged marriage $z Virginia $x History. 650 0 $a Arranged marriage $z Great Britain $x History. 651 0 $a Virginia $x History $y Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 $v Biography. 651 0 $a Virginia $x Social life and customs $y To 1775. 700 1 $a Strevens, Charlotte, $e narrator. 710 2 $a hoopla digital. 856 40 $u https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12359673?utm_source=MARC $z Instantly available on hoopla. 856 42 $z Cover image $u https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/bsa_9781094005799_180.jpeg 941 $a 1 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20200403012033.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D1218068757211EA9A5BA35697128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search