Thieves, Rogues and Vagabonds
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Our history is rift with romantic myths celebrating our beginnings overseen by the absurdity of political correctness. My research seeks the truth in digging past the clutter to find the reality, however unpalatable.
I am seeking financial help from anyone interested in Early American History and genealogical research for the book that I am writing which depicts the story of men, women and children who, sentenced by the courts of England were to serve out their criminal sentences as slaves to the first colony of Virginia. I am documenting the stories of some of the many thousands of convicts transported here and sold off the docks as Virginia’s white slaves. I have documented close to 21,000 transported convicts in bondage, many, surprisingly survived the triangle passage to the colony. There is the list the of the many who died in passage.
Financial assistance will enable me to travel to locations to conduct interviews with historians of plantations located along the James, Rappahannock and Potomac Rivers to unearth the silent and buried saga of the first one hundred years of our European existence. An appendix will include the “passenger” lists from numerous ships which arrived in Jamestown and the docks along the James, Rappahannock, Potomac and York Rivers and their plantations between the years 1619 and 1783. This effort will provide a great deal of historical information to historians and genealogical researchers.
I am seeking financial help from anyone interested in Early American History and genealogical research for the book that I am writing which depicts the story of men, women and children who, sentenced by the courts of England were to serve out their criminal sentences as slaves to the first colony of Virginia. I am documenting the stories of some of the many thousands of convicts transported here and sold off the docks as Virginia’s white slaves. I have documented close to 21,000 transported convicts in bondage, many, surprisingly survived the triangle passage to the colony. There is the list the of the many who died in passage.
Financial assistance will enable me to travel to locations to conduct interviews with historians of plantations located along the James, Rappahannock and Potomac Rivers to unearth the silent and buried saga of the first one hundred years of our European existence. An appendix will include the “passenger” lists from numerous ships which arrived in Jamestown and the docks along the James, Rappahannock, Potomac and York Rivers and their plantations between the years 1619 and 1783. This effort will provide a great deal of historical information to historians and genealogical researchers.
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Ann Casey
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Warrenton, VA
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