Description
Book SynopsisIt is one thing to draw a line in the sand but another to enforce it. In this innovative new work, Jessica Lauren Taylor follows the Native peoples and the newcomers who built and crossed emerging boundaries surrounding Indigenous towns and developing English plantations in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake Bay.
Trade Review“There is much to admire about this book, including the quality of the research--the excellent use of archaeology, both published studies and unpublished site reports, is especially commendable--and the persuasiveness of its arguments. Taylor has made several signal contributions to long-standing historiographical debates.” - Matthew Kruer, University of Chicago, author of
Time of Anarchy: Indigenous Power and the Crisis of Colonialism in Early America“An exceptionally rich and well-researched book. Taylor weaves English and Indigenous perspectives together to make a unique intervention.” - Paul P. Musselwhite, Dartmouth College, author of Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth: The Rise of Plantation Society in the Chesapeake
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Connections and Borders in the Chesapeake
- 1. The Moving People and Places of the Powhatan Chiefdom
- 2. Watching Carefully in the Bay, 1607-1614
- 3. New Borders, New Connections, New Fractures, 1615-1644
- 4. Sailors and Rumors in the Bay, 1622-1644
- 5. Trade, Property, and the Meaning of Algonquian Places, 1650-1660
- 6. Neighbors, Local Authority, and Local Violence, 1660-1666
- 7. Rebelling by the Bay, 1670-1680
- Epilogue: Native History at Dividing Lines
