Settlers from Plymouth England shared an autumn feast with the Wampanoag tribe in Massachusetts 400 years ago a tradition we’ve come to call Thanksgiving.
Daily Life in Colonial America
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Life in Colonial America was difficult and often short but the colonists made the best of their situation in the hopes of making a better life for themselves and their families. The early English colonists who established Jamestown, Plymouth, and Massachusetts Bay Colony, used to purchasing what they needed, found they were now required to either import items from the mother country, make them, or do without. Even later arrivals, unless of the upper class, found the New World challenging as most people had to work hard just to survive.
HBO’s ‘Exterminate All the Brutes’ Is a Flawed Study of White Colonialist Rape and Terror
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“The forces involved here are less visible than gunfire, class property or political crusades, but they are no less powerful,” Raoul Peck posits in his new docuseries
Exterminate All the Brutes, premiering April 7 on HBO.
The critically acclaimed filmmaker is referring to the series of myths that comprise white supremacy, the subject of the four-part series that explores the brutal methods and ideological justifications of Western colonization. In his latest project, Peck reapplies experimental techniques from his 2016 Oscar-nominated documentary about writer and activist James Baldwin,
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Henricus (1611-1622 CE, also known as Henrico, Henryco, Citie of Henryco) was a colony established in Virginia, above Jamestown, in 1611 CE by Sir Thomas Dale (l. c. 1560-1619 CE). Dale had been ordered by the Virginia Company of London – which had funded the expedition that established Jamestown Colony of Virginia – to locate a site for a new colony that would replace Jamestown as capital. Dale’s mission was to find better land for a colony as well as to fortify it against possible attacks by the Spanish who objected to England’s colonization efforts in North America, claiming it was already theirs.
The Indian Massacre of 1622 CE was an attack on the settlements of the Virginia Colony by the tribes of the Powhatan Confederacy under their leader Opchanacanough.