Mail-Order Brides of Jamestown: Tobacco Women in the Colonial Period

Colonial Virginia saw scores of young men venture across the Atlantic Ocean to work as indentured servants in the tobacco fields, but there were very few women brave enough to sail to the New World where disease, starvation, and attacks by Native Americans cut many lives short. Therefore, the investors in the Virginia Company sought respectable women to take to Virginia and the other Southern colonies where women were in short supply. These women who volunteered to become the brides to southern planters possessed incredible power and advantages in the colonial environment and they stood to gain incredible wealth. Hear the story of Colonial Virginia and their mail-order brides.

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