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The Jamestown Brides

eAudiobook
Jennifer Potter / Charlotte Strevens
In 1621 fifty-seven women undertook a three-month journey to Jamestown after responding to an advert placed by the Virginia Company looking for wives for its tobacco planters in the New Colony. They travelled of their own free will but the Company was effectively selling them at a profit having set a bride price of 150lbs of tobacco for each woman. But what did the women want? Why did they make the perilous Atlantic crossing to a dangerous land where six out of seven European settlers died within a few years? Using company records and contemporary accounts Jennifer Potter gives the Jamestown brides their voice.


  • Published by Oakhill Publishing
  • Fiction/Non-FictionNon Fiction
  • Genre History
  • Target Audience Adult
  • Released 1st December 2018
  • Duration 10 Hrs. 01 Mins.
  • ISBN 9781787711884