Product Overview
From Follett
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-176) and index. "Examines the . . . history of Virginia's westward expansion. Land, the foundation to tobacco cultivation and slavery, obsessed early Virginians. Land acquisition was also a necessary step in dispossessing Virginia's native inhabitants, replacing them with Europeans and Africans"--Dust jacket.
From the Publisher
"Once all the world was Virginia"-an exaggerated truism to be sure, but in the early eighteenth century, there seemed no limit on the Old Dominion's possibility for growth, particularly in the eyes of the state's Tidewater elite.