From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial ... A Dutch ship brings the first permanent African settlers to Jamestown. Africans soon are put to work on tobacco ...

Among these is a colorful map of eastern North Carolina ... That would mean that even before the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown, the American melting pot already was bubbling ...

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The English settlement of Jamestown was important for the future of European colonization in North America. The colonists suffered many challenges, particularly in their early years, and many ...

View scans of historic and contemporary maps, read a bibliography ... University of Alabama Press, 2006. Jamestown Narratives: Eyewitness Accounts of the Virginia Colony, The First Decade: 1607-1617.