BUST, BOOM, BONDAGE, & REBELLION IN VIRGINIA

I. Planting Jamestown

• Virginia Company
• Early problems: location, labor, governance
• John Smith, Powhatan, and survival
• Dale's Laws

II. Growth and Reform

• Tobacco as staple crop
• Reforms (1618-19): headright system common law House of Burgesses
• Indian attack led by Opechancanough (1622)
• Transfer to royal control (1624)

III. Unfree Labor

• Indentured servitude and its appeal
• Emergence of African slavery in Virginia
• Explanations for slavery's development

IV. Bacon's Rebellion

• Context: declining death rate; land engrossment; ex-servants' frustrations
• Berkeley, Bacon, and the events of 1675-76
• Historical significance

V. Toward Stability in the Eighteenth Century: the Role of Slavery