{"product_id":"2940013841253","title":"PIONEERS OF THE OLD SOUTH","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     I.    THE THREE SHIPS SAIL\u003cbr\u003e     II.   THE ADVENTURERS\u003cbr\u003e     III.  JAMESTOWN\u003cbr\u003e     IV.   JOHN SMITH\u003cbr\u003e     V.    THE SEA ADVENTURE\u003cbr\u003e     VI.   SIR THOMAS DALE\u003cbr\u003e     VII.  YOUNG VIRGINIA\u003cbr\u003e     VIII. ROYAL GOVERNMENT\u003cbr\u003e     IX.   MARYLAND\u003cbr\u003e     X.    CHURCH AND KINGDOM\u003cbr\u003e     XI.   COMMONWEALTH AND RESTORATION\u003cbr\u003e     XII.  NATHANIEL BACON\u003cbr\u003e     XIII. REBELLION AND CHANGE\u003cbr\u003e     XIV.  THE CAROLINAS\u003cbr\u003e     XV.   ALEXANDER SPOTSWOOD\u003cbr\u003e     XVI.  GEORGIA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     THE NAVIGATION LAWS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePIONEERS OF THE OLD SOUTH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I. THE THREE SHIPS SAIL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth of England died in 1603. There came to the English throne\u003cbr\u003eJames Stuart, King of Scotland, King now of England and Scotland. In\u003cbr\u003e1604 a treaty of peace ended the long war with Spain. Gone was the\u003cbr\u003esixteenth century; here, though in childhood, was the seventeenth\u003cbr\u003ecentury.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow that the wars were over, old colonization schemes were revived\u003cbr\u003ein the English mind. Of the motives, which in the first instance had\u003cbr\u003eprompted these schemes, some with the passing of time had become weaker,\u003cbr\u003esome remained quite as strong as before. Most Englishmen and women knew\u003cbr\u003enow that Spain had clay feet; and that Rome, though she might threaten,\u003cbr\u003ecould not always perform what she threatened. To abase the pride of\u003cbr\u003eSpain, to make harbors of refuge for the angel of the Reformation--these\u003cbr\u003ewishes, though they had not vanished, though no man could know how long\u003cbr\u003ethe peace with Spain would last, were less fervid than they had been in\u003cbr\u003ethe days of Drake. But the old desire for trade remained as strong as\u003cbr\u003eever. It would be a great boon to have English markets in the New World,\u003cbr\u003eas well as in the Old, to which merchants might send their wares, and\u003cbr\u003efrom which might be drawn in bulk, the raw stuffs that were needed\u003cbr\u003eat home. The idea of a surplus population persisted; England of five\u003cbr\u003emillion souls still thought that she was crowded and that it would\u003cbr\u003ebe well to have a land of younger sons, a land of promise for all not\u003cbr\u003eabundantly provided for at home. It were surely well, for mere pride's\u003cbr\u003esake, to have due lot and part in the great New World! And wealth like\u003cbr\u003ethat which Spain had found was a dazzle and a lure. \"Why, man, all their\u003cbr\u003edripping-pans are pure gold, and all the chains with which they chain up\u003cbr\u003etheir streets are massy gold; all the prisoners they take are fettered\u003cbr\u003ein gold; and for rubies and diamonds they go forth on holidays and\u003cbr\u003egather 'em by the seashore!\" So the comedy of \"Eastward Ho!\" seen on the\u003cbr\u003eLondon stage in 1605--\"Eastward Ho!\" because yet they thought of America\u003cbr\u003eas on the road around to China.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this year Captain George Weymouth sailed across the sea and spent\u003cbr\u003ea summer month in North Virginia--later, New England. Weymouth had\u003cbr\u003epowerful backers, and with him sailed old adventurers who had been\u003cbr\u003ewith Raleigh. Coming home to England with five Indians in his company,\u003cbr\u003eWeymouth and his voyage gave to public interest the needed fillip\u003cbr\u003etowards action. Here was the peace with Spain, and here was the new\u003cbr\u003einterest in Virginia. \"Go to!\" said Mother England. \"It is time to place\u003cbr\u003eour children in the world!\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47158049669360,"sku":"2940013841253","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013841253_p0.jpg?v=1763595393","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013841253","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}