EXTRA 87. Servitude and Anglo-Powhatan Wars

Indentures are agreements between two parties about long-term work. The length of servitude might be a specified number of years or until the servant reached a certain age. Some people indentured themselves in order to gain passage to America or to escape debt and poverty. Discovery that Virginia was the perfect environment to cultivate tobacco led to Jamestown's success… and to a great deal of conflict between the English and the natives. Relations between the local natives and colonists became increasingly uncomfortable as more white settlers arrived in Virginia. The natives moved farther inland to distance themselves from the English, but more Europeans kept arriving. Both sides were guilty of straining the relationship. The English stole corn and other food supplies and the natives ambushed the English for their tools and weapons. Finally, the conflict erupted in the winter of 1610. Check out the YouTube versions of this episode at: https://youtu.be/cLgzFHz4SIY https://youtu.be/Cx69p8xt9_o Khan Academy available at https://amzn.to/3HSo0jt  Nice Try! Podcast available at https://amzn.to/3xGheJf Jamestown products available at https://amzn.to/3RW5kEm Anglo-Powhatan Wars books available at https://amzn.to/3ZvLWQP ENJOY Ad-Free content, Bonus episodes, and Extra materials when joining our growing community on https://patreon.com/markvinet  SUPPORT this channel by purchasing any product on Amazon using this FREE entry LINK https://amzn.to/3POlrUD (Amazon gives us credit at NO extra charge to you).  Mark Vinet's TIMELINE video channel: https://youtube.com/c/TIMELINE_MarkVinet              Website: https://markvinet.com/podcast  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mark.vinet.9 Twitter: https://twitter.com/HistoricalJesu   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denarynovels   Mark's Books: https://amzn.to/3k8qrGM  Audio credits: Khan Academy - Jamestown series with Kim; Nice Try! podcast with A. Trufelman by Curbed-Jamestown: Utopia for Whom (1607); Young Man by Jamestown Revival (Thirty Tigers). Audio excerpts reproduced under the Fair Use (Fair Dealings) Legal Doctrine for purposes such as criticism, comment, teaching, education, scholarship, research and news reporting. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.