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1619: Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy
By Horn, James
- ISBN
- 9780465064694 9781541698802
- Publisher
- Basic
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Reviewed on October 15, 2018 | Historic Jamestown
In 1619, two singular events took place in Jamestown colony, both firsts for the nascent United States. Between July 30 and August 4, a general assembly of America's first representative governing body met at the Virginia settlement to recommend new and permanent laws for the colony. At the end of August, a battered privateer arrived in the bay and sold or traded enslaved Africans to the co...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
