Writing in 1724 to defend Virginia from unjust reflections in England, Hugh Jones describes its Native peoples, its settlers and the enslaved Africans whose labour it depended on, the new capital at Williamsburg with its college and Capitol, and the colony’s land, trade, church and schools.
An essential source on early Virginia; its views of Native and African people are those of a colonial clergyman of 1724. Download the free EPUB.