Lethal encounters: Englishmen and Indians in colonial Virginia

Explorations, encounters, and abandoned colonies

"Our mortall enemies" : early encounters at Jamestown

"To subdue the wilde savages" : Captain John Smith and the Powhatans

"A world of miseries" : the Virginia Colony, 1609-1614

"Upon doubtful terms" : Virginia, 1616-1622

"A plantation of sorrows" : Virginia, 1622-1635

Another war and a new policy

Bacon's Rebellion and its aftermath

Conclusions.