Desperate Shores - The Anglo-Powhatan Wars

American Political History · Mar 28, 2021 · 26m

On the morning of March 22, 1622, in roughly two dozen English settlements along the James River in Virginia, Powhatan men sat down to breakfast with English families they had known for years. By 1622 this was ordinary. In the eight years since the Peace of Pocahontas had ended the First Anglo-Powhatan War, the two cultures had grown together in ways that had no precedent in the colonial Americas. Powhatan visitors moved freely through English homes. English boys lived in Powhatan villages. A college for the education of Powhatan children was being built at Henrico, with ten thousand acres of…