Tee Yee Neen Ho Ga Row, Emperor of the Six Nations

by John Verelst.

Photograph: © Library and Archives Canada

Brave new world

Two remarkable exhibitions of portraits of Native Americans
by some of the first European settlers
reveal a great deal about the early days of imperial power.
But how much were these paintings mere colonial propaganda,
asks Linda Colley

The Guardian        Review        p. 12        21.4.2007
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2062128,00.html

Rice cultivation is introduced into Carolina.

Slave importation increases dramatically        1694

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/1694.html

Bacon's Rebellion        1671

In Virginia,

black slaves and black and white indentured servants

band together to participate in Bacon's Rebellion

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/1676.html

Virginia enacts a law of hereditary slavery

meaning that a child born to an enslaved mother inherits her slave status        1662

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/1662.html

The Flushing Remonstrance        1657

is an important historical document
that was signed on December 27, 1657 in Flushing, Queens,
by a group of English citizens seeking to defend religious freedom,
particularly the right to practice religions
besides the official faith of the New Netherland Colony,
the Dutch Reformed Church.
Many believe that the Flushing Remonstrance, in its promotion of religious toleration,
served as a model for the right to religious freedom granted by the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights.

http://www.queenslibrary.org/irc/gallery/index.htm

Massachusetts is the first colony to legalize slavery        1641

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/1641.html

Former Puritan leader Roger Williams (1603-1683)

is expelled from Massachusetts in 1636

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel01-2.html

20,000 Puritans

emigrate to America from England        1630 onwards

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel01.html

Pilgrims arrive in Massachusetts        1620

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel01.html

At Jamestown, Virginia,

approximately 20 captive Africans

are sold into slavery in the British North American colonies        1619

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/1619.html

Jamestown, Virginia        1606-1610

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/colonial/indians/suppress.html

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/colonial/jamestwn/jamestwn.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/sep10.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/may14.html

http://hnn.us/articles/36913.html

Henry Hudson explores the Hudson river        1609

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/08/29/nyregion/20090830-hudson-river-journey.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/nyregion/30hudson.html

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/picamer/paDiscover.html

Portraits of Native Americans by some of the first European settlers

First British paintings of Native American chiefs at National Portrait Gallery

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2062128,00.html

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2028950,00.html

John White
 

he British artist who was first to capture the wonder and mystery of the New World

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2028938,00.html

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