Pioneers of the Old South: A Chronicle of English Colonial Beginnings
Jamestown, Virginia, and the Making of the Chesapeake Plantation SouthBy Mary Johnston
Length5h
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Mary Johnston's *Pioneers of the Old South: A Chronicle of English Colonial Beginnings* presents the formation of England's southern American colonies as a sequence of exploration, settlement, conflict, and institutional experiment. Moving from Elizabethan ambitions and the Roanoke venture to Jamestown, the Virginia Company, tobacco cultivation, and the expansion of plantation society, Johnston gives political events the momentum of narrative. Her prose is vivid, dramatic, and character-centered, yet shaped by documentary history and an interest in the moral pressures of colonization. The volume belongs to the early twentieth-century tradition of accessible national history, particularly the "chronicle" form that transformed archival episodes into compelling stories of American origins. Its celebratory account of English initiative also reveals the period's tendency to marginalize Indigenous peoples and enslaved Africans, making its rhetoric historically instructive as well as engaging. Born in 1876 and raised in Virginia, Johnston drew deeply upon the landscapes, legends, and inherited memories of the Old South. She first achieved fame as a novelist of historical romance, especially through *To Have and to Hold*, and later wrote extensively about the American Civil War and Virginia's colonial past. Her imaginative command of scene and character enabled her to translate complex historical developments into readable, emotionally charged prose. This book reflects both her regional identification and her desire to situate southern history within the larger narrative of the United States. The volume is recommended to readers interested in colonial historiography, Virginia studies, and the literary construction of American beginnings. It offers a lively introduction to English expansion while rewarding critical reading of its omissions, assumptions, and heroic conventions. Students and general readers alike will find in Johnston's chronicle a revealing meeting point between historical research, regional memory, and national mythology.
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GenreHistory
Length5 hrs
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 25, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (Annotated)
2CHAPTER I. THE THREE SHIPS SAIL
3CHAPTER II. THE ADVENTURERS
4CHAPTER III. JAMESTOWN
5CHAPTER IV. JOHN SMITH
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6CHAPTER V. THE "SEA ADVENTURE"
7CHAPTER VI. SIR THOMAS DALE
8CHAPTER VII. YOUNG VIRGINIA
9CHAPTER VIII. ROYAL GOVERNMENT
10CHAPTER IX. MARYLAND
11CHAPTER X. CHURCH AND KINGDOM
12CHAPTER XI. COMMONWEALTH AND RESTORATION
13CHAPTER XII. NATHANIEL BACON
14CHAPTER XIII. REBELLION AND CHANGE
15CHAPTER XIV. THE CAROLINAS
16CHAPTER XV. ALEXANDER SPOTSWOOD
17CHAPTER XVI. GEORGIA
18THE NAVIGATION LAWS
19BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
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