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It is one thing to draw a line in the sand but another to enforce
it. In this innovative new work, Jessica Lauren Taylor follows the
Native peoples and the newcomers who built and crossed emerging
boundaries surrounding Indigenous towns and developing English
plantations in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake Bay. In a
riverine landscape defined by connection, Algonquians had
cultivated ties to one another and into the continent for
centuries. As Taylor finds, their networks continued to define the
watery Chesapeake landscape, even as Virginia and Maryland’s
planters erected fences and forts, policed unfree laborers, and
dispatched land surveyors. By chronicling English and Algonquian
attempts to move along paths and rivers and to enforce boundaries,
Taylor casts a new light on pivotal moments in Anglo-Indigenous
relations, from the growth of the fur trade to Bacon’s Rebellion.
Most important, Taylor traces the ways in which the peoples
resisting colonial encroachment and subjugation used Native
networks and Indigenous knowledge of the Bay to cross newly created
English boundaries. She thereby illuminates alternate visions of
power, freedom, and connection in the colonial Chesapeake.
It is one thing to draw a line in the sand but another to enforce
it. In this innovative new work, Jessica Lauren Taylor follows the
Native peoples and the newcomers who built and crossed emerging
boundaries surrounding Indigenous towns and developing English
plantations in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake Bay. In a
riverine landscape defined by connection, Algonquians had
cultivated ties to one another and into the continent for
centuries. As Taylor finds, their networks continued to define the
watery Chesapeake landscape, even as Virginia and Maryland’s
planters erected fences and forts, policed unfree laborers, and
dispatched land surveyors. By chronicling English and Algonquian
attempts to move along paths and rivers and to enforce boundaries,
Taylor casts a new light on pivotal moments in Anglo-Indigenous
relations, from the growth of the fur trade to Bacon’s Rebellion.
Most important, Taylor traces the ways in which the peoples
resisting colonial encroachment and subjugation used Native
networks and Indigenous knowledge of the Bay to cross newly created
English boundaries. She thereby illuminates alternate visions of
power, freedom, and connection in the colonial Chesapeake.
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