1607-The Story: -John SMITH arrives with colonists to settle Jamestown -In late 1607 John SMITH was taken by Powhatan warriors -John SMITH meets Pocahontas for the first time when she is ~12 years old and he is ~27 years old -Review story of John SMITH’S account with Powhatan pages 47-48…

The “Saving Angel”: "... at the minute of my execution", he wrote, "she [Pocahontas] hazarded the beating out of her own brains to save mine; and not only that, but so prevailed with her father, that I was safely conducted to Jamestown.“-Smith’s 1616 account of the dramatic act of selflessness which would become legendary -THEORIES: -EXAGGERATED? -CEREMONY? -MISUNDERSTANDING? -POLITICAL MOTIVATIONS? -POCAHONTAS AT RITUAL?

Assisting Jamestown: -Befriended Smith "every once in four or five days, Pocahontas with her attendants brought him [Smith] so much provision that saved many of their lives that else for all this had starved with hunger." -John Smith returns in England in 1609- WHY? -John Smith dead?

1609-1610: -JOHN SMITH LEFT BEFORE STARVING TIME -BARON DE LAWARR AND JOHN ROLFE ARRIVE IN VIRGINIA IN THE SPRING OF 1610

During the Tobacco Uproar… -CAPTAIN SAMEL ARGALL HAS AN IDEA -IN 1613: DINNER ON THE SHIP -POCAHONTAS, POWHATAN’S DAUGHTER, IS KIDNAPPED -THE HOSTAGE SITUATION -BACKFIRE -POCAHONTAS TO JAMESTOWN SETTLEMENT -AT THIS TIME POCAHONTAS IS ~19

1614/TRUE LOVE?: -Learn English, covert to Christianity, baptized, change name to Rebecca -ROLFE and the “heathen” -Married in Spring of 1614: What did this marriage result in? "It is Pocahontas to whom my hearty and best thoughts are, and have been a long time so entangled, and enthralled in so intricate a labyrinth that I (could not) unwind myself thereout.“-John ROLFE

1615-1616/From Savage to Celebrity: -Thomas Rolfe born in 1615 -Return to England -Pocahontas = celebrity -What did her portrait represent?

Can Pocahontas' love for Smith save the day?” The Disney Story: “This is the Disney animated tale of the romance between a young American Indian woman named Pocahontas and Capt. John Smith, who journeyed to the New World with other settlers to begin fresh lives. Her powerful father, Chief Powhatan, disapproves of their relationship and wants her to marry a native warrior. Meanwhile, Smith's fellow Englishmen hope to rob the Native Americans of their gold. Can Pocahontas' love for Smith save the day?”

Hierarchy and Inequality in the Chesapeake… ~ Social and Economic Polarization 1. Era of the yeoman 2. Formation of planter elite ~ Government Policies and Political Conflict 1. Government reinforced social distinctions 2. Royal government tightens control 3. Mercantilism

…Hierarchy and Inequality in the Chesapeake cont. ~ Bacon’s Rebellion 1. Virginia’s Indian policy 2. Bacon’s laws 3. Bacon’s Rebellion 4. Aftermath

Toward a Slave Labor System… ~ Religion and Revolt in the Spanish Borderland 1. Stagnant growth in New Mexico and Florida 2. Spanish missionaries convert Indians to Christianity 3. Indians retaliate against Spanish exploitation ~ The West Indies: Sugar and Slavery 1. Barbados 2. Sugar and slave labor

…Toward a Slave Labor System cont. ~ Carolina: A West Indian Frontier 1. Settlers from Barbados arrive in Carolina 2. Slave labor ~ Slave Labor Emerges in the Chesapeake 1. Black population grows five-fold between 1670 and 1700 2. Advantages of slaves over servants 3. Slave labor system polarizes Chesapeake society