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Many of those additional people were indentured servants who, in return for their transatlantic passage, bound themselves to labor for seven years. In 1619 the White Lion, a privateer, brought a new labor source--"20 and odd negroes" from Angola. Our original sin was not very original--Spain and Portugal had already brought 200,000 African slaves to the Americas--and the colony was slow to exploit the practice. Slaves did not outnumber indentured servants in Virginia until the 1670s. Once acquired, however, the habit of bondage would prove addicting--economic and social nicotine...
...nonsense from settlers who wouldn't pull their weight or who put self-interest above the colony's needs. He made an enemy or two along the way. As the military man who understood the terrain and was the least likely to be missed if he didn't return, Smith was put in charge of seeking local tribes willing to swap corn, fish and game for English copper and glass beads. When one hard-pressed tribe balked at the corn-for-copper trade, Smith ordered his men to rake the village with shot and put the odd lodge...
Suddenly it wasn't only the Indians who had to deal with Smith, but also the Virginia Co. investors who funded Jamestown and were impertinent enough to expect a return. Forget it, Smith wrote his London underwriters. There was no sense digging for gold where nature had left none, he scoffed, nor would the rock-strewn James River ever guide their wind-driven square-riggers on some long-dreamed-of shortcut to China. Disenchanted investors, he concluded, were free to join him in Jamestown, where their odds of surviving were about...
Virginia Tech students return to class...
...Harvard began the season with only four varsity players: Mukundan, Ko, Litvak, and freshman Lizzie Brook. To fill out the roster, the Crimson held tryouts for the players of the women’s club team. Forgie, junior Vilsa Curto, and sophomore Rachel Gottlieb all moved up to varsity.Early returns on the team’s new players were not promising agasinst No.19 Kentucky. Litvak, Curto, Forgie, and Gottlieb won a cumulative total of three games in their single matches, while Brook sat out with a sprained ankle. Only Ko managed to eke out a three set victory...