History 270: The United States to 1865
Fall Semester 1998 - Dr. Thomas R. Maddux
Lecture Outline from September 11, 1998
Virginia in the 17th Century

  1. Virginia Interactions
    1. English patriarchal society
      1. Good wife vs. Disorderly women
      2. Political and Economic structures
      3. Indentured Servitude
      4. Gender and social order
    2. Anglo-Indian Frontier
      1. Powhatan use of trade, force, women
      2. English views of Powhatans
      3. Conflict: 1622, 1644-1654
      4. Indians as servants and slaves
    3. Anglo-African-Indian encounters
      1. Servants, slaves, free blacks
      2. Anglo regulations
  2. Bacon's Rebellion in 1670s
    1. Planter elite vs. small planters, immigrants, servants and slaves (50% of 30,000)
    2. Indian policy (10,000 to 4,000 in 1670), Doegs
    3. Gov. Berkeley vs. Nathaniel Bacon
    4. Results of the rebellion
      1. Participation of women, servants and slaves
      2. Royal Commission: restructure govt., women as victims, servants vs. slaves and Indians

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