The Jamestown Brides: The Story of England's "Maids for Virginia" by Jennifer Potter

The Jamestown Brides: The Story of England's "Maids for Virginia"

Jennifer Potter

384 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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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 d...

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