Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century

Through networks of trails and rivers inland and established ocean routes across the seas, seventeenth—century Virginians were connected to a vibrant Atlantic world. They routinely traded with adjacent Native Americans and received ships from England, the Netherlands, and other English and Dutch colonies, while maintaining less direct connections to Africa and to French and Spanish colonies. Their Atlantic world emerged from the movement of goods and services, but trade routes quickly becam...