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The Jamestown Brides

By: Jennifer Potter
Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
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In 1621, 57 women undertook a three-month journey to Jamestown after responding to an advert placed by the Virginia Company, looking for wives for its tobacco planters in the New Colony.

They travelled of their own free will, but the Company was effectively selling them at a profit, having set a bride price of 150lbs of tobacco for each woman. But what did the women want? Why did they make the perilous Atlantic crossing to a dangerous land, where six out of seven European settlers died within a few years?

Using company records and contemporary accounts, Jennifer Potter gives the Jamestown brides their voice.

©2018 Jennifer Potter (P)2018 Oakhill Publishing 17th Century Americas Civilization Colonial Period Europe Great Britain Modern United States Women World
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Difficult to keep with it, due to all the name mentioning going on. When there are facts it's interesting. Not the best audio books but the narrator herself does a good job.

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