A series of supply ships brought by De La Ware and other Englishmen meant that the colonists had enough food too. Although no gold would ever be discovered in Virginia, the colony was becoming lucrative on its own.
In 1613, Pocahontas was captured and taken to Jamestown as a hostage in response to an Englishman being held by her tribe. Pocahontas and John Smith had met years earlier and Smith reports that she helped save his life. As a captive, Pocahontas was introduced to John Rolfe and the two were married. Pocahontas converted to Christianity and changed her name to Rebecca.
The conditions under which they were married have been romanticized as a chapter of American history but undoubtedly the wedding changed the political alliances between the English settlers and the indigenous peoples living in Virginia. The wedding signified the balance of power between the settlers and the natives, showing that the English colonists intended to take what they wanted from the New World.
The marriage of tobacco entrepreneur to Pocahontas, who was the daughter of Chief Powhatan, solidified the settlement's success. Powhatan reportedly approved of the alliance. Rolfe and Pocahontas relocated to England, and she died there in 1617. However, several English women had arrived in Jamestown years before. Jamestown gradually transformed from a temporary settlement organized around the business needs of the Virginia Company into a permanent English colony. Between 1618 and 1623 the colony's population surged from 400 to 4500.
In need of a charter for local governance, Jamestown created a General Assembly for the Virginia Company on July 30, 1619. That same year, Jamestown colonists purchased twenty African slaves from Dutch slave traders. The exchange marked the beginning of the brutal and bloody slave trade that would populate the plantations of Virginia. By...
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