White Lion and the
Treasurer immediately set sail for Virginia, where they hoped to sell their cargo. According to a letter written by the colony’s secretary, John Rolfe, to the Virginia Company of London treasurer, Sir Edwin Sandys, the
White Lion arrived first and landed at Point Comfort sometime late in August, having lost its “consort shipp” on the passage from the West Indies. Rolfe described the ship as a “Dutch man of Warr,” perhaps because it bore Dutch letters of marque. “He brought not any thing but 20. and odd Negroes,” Rolfe wrote, which the governor, Argall’s successor Sir George Yeardley, and the cape merchant, Abraham Peirsey, “bought for victualle [food] … at the best and easyest rate they could.” Some of the Africans were then transported to Jamestown and Flowerdew Hundred, a plantation on the upper reaches of the James River that Peirsey was in the process of purchasing from Yeardley. John Pory, John Rolfe’s successor as secretary, indica
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MIFF lifts the lid on its 2021 program, featuring a whopping 283 films Summer of Soul (.or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
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Melbourne International Film Festival is bringing a huge spread of feature and short films to cinemas and screens at home with this year’s program.
Celebrating its 69th edition, Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) has revealed its 2021 program, with an astonishing lineup of 283 international and Australian films and transformative screen experiences.
Presenting 199 feature films, 84 shorts, and ten XR experiences, the program includes 40 world premieres the most in the festival’s history and 154 Australian premieres, with 62 films available on MIFF Play the festival’s online screening platform.
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