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Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong — Excerpt: Virginia, pt. 1 -- The Successful Failure, 1607-1646
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Excerpt: Virginia, pt. 1 -- The Successful Failure, 1607-1646

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

Virginia began from a small, undersupplied wooden fort immersed in a brackish and malarial marsh to become, after 30 years, the largest and most valuable colony in North America, pulling in thousands of indentured workers and African slaves each year and pumping out millions of pounds of tobacco. In achieving this…

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