'Compelling... A real pleasure to read.' - BBC History Magazine In
1621, fifty-six English women crossed the Atlantic in response to
the Virginia Company of London's call for maids 'young and
uncorrupt' to make wives for the planters of its new colony in
Virginia.While the women travelled of their own accord, the company
was in effect selling them at a profit for a bride price of 150 lbs
of tobacco for each woman sold. The rewards would flow to investors
in the near-bankrupt company. But what did the women want from the
enterprise? Why did they agree to make the perilous crossing to a
wild and dangerous land, where six out of seven European settlers
died within their first few years? And what happened to them in the
end?
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