The episode will present the Jamestown colony, bad location, power struggles, John Smith, Powhatan, new charters, Pocahontas, Dales Laws, headrights system, John Rolfe, tobacco growing, first House of Burgesses, the massacre of 1622 and the fall of the London company.

Picture: A stamp celebrating the founding of Jamestown Colony 1607. Wikipedia

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Literature on the American Colonial Era:

-         American colonies: the settling of North America, Alan Taylor

-         Colonial America, Richard Middleton

-         The British in the Americas 1480-1815, Anthony McFarlane

-         The Americans: Colonial experience, Daniel Boorstin

-         The Barbarous years, Bernard Bailyn

-         The American Colonies, R.C. Simmons

-         Colonial America 1607-1763, Harry Ward

-         The Forty years that created America, Edward Lamont

-         Wilderness at dawn, Ted Morgan

-         A History of Colonial America, Max Savelle

-         The Brave new world, Peter Charles Hoffer

-         Founding of the American colonies 1583-1660, John Pomfret

-         The colonies in transition 1660-1713, Wesley Frank Craven

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