Jon
"Outdated notions"? Your suggestion is so "modest" I fail to grasp it.
Perhaps it is just me. Does Horn change "outdated notions"? I read him as
detailing the English struggle to establish a viable community in a new and
hostile land. It was a land already occupied by a native people who waged a
bloody resistance until forced away by the increasing influx of more
settlers. Horn has very little to say about the Africans since his account
ends before they had a significant presence. We know that it was another 40
before statutes began to address slave issues. However, the message that
promulgated by the 400th Reunion was that three cultures "came together" to
start America.



Richard E. Dixon
> [Original Message]
> From: Jon Kukla <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 10/28/2008 5:35:23 PM
> Subject: [VA-HIST] A modest suggestion about Jamestown
>
> Before the fisticuffs erupt over outdated notions of what happened at
> Jamestown, would it be too much to hope that potential combatants
> might actually inform themselves about the remarkable story uncovered
there
> over the past decade ?  Two good places to start would be
>
> Kelso, William M.    Jamestown, the buried truth /    Charlottesville :
> University of Virginia Press, 2006.
>
> Horn, James     A land as God made it :   Jamestown and the birth of
America
> /    New York : Basic Books, c2005.
>
>
> -- 
> Jon Kukla
> www.JonKukla.com
>
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