1. Civilisation des Etats Unis--3a: English Colonization
Prof. Sämi LUDWIG UHA Mulhouse

2. England Chesapeake 1580s: failed colony at Roanoke Island - alienate Indians by beheading Chief Wingina - Virgina Dare born = first English child in New World - Christian Croatoan Indian Mateo

3. Roanoke 1587 series of 22 portraits by draftsman John White - White returns 1590: settlement razed, colonists mysteriously disappeared: many theories about this!  sign”CROA”? diseases : - “within a few days after our departure from every such Towne, the people began to die very fast.” = “invisible bullets”: Indians take them to be immortal  1588 English defeat Spanish Armada, arrive last in New World

4. John White drawings

5. John White drawings

6. John White drawings

7. John White drawings

8. John White etchings in De Bry (Amsterdam)

9. Thomas Harriott ( ): A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588)  support Raleigh’s petition to the Queen not to abandon the colony  advertising pamphlet to find investors: “There is an herbe which is sowed apart by it selfe, and is called by the inhabitants Uppowoc: in the West Indies it hath divers names, according to the severall places and countreys where it groweth and is used: the Spanish generally call it Tabacco. The leaves thereof being dried and brought into pouder, they use and take the fume and smoke thereof, by sucking it thorow pipes made of clay, into their stomacke and head, from whence it purgeth superfluous fleame and other grosse humours, and openeth all the pores and passages of the body: by which meanes the use thereof not only preserveth the body from obstructions , but it also ... in short time breaketh them: whereby their bodies are notably preserveth in health, and know not many grievous diseases, wherewithal we in England are often times afflicted.”