Voices from Colonial America: Virginia 1607-1776: 1607 - 1776 (National Geographic Voices from ColonialAmerica)

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One of the largest and most prosperous of the original colonies Virginia played a huge role in the forming of the new nation. Here an appealing mixture of maps archival photographs and first-person accounts opens kids eyes to life in colonial Virginia. Theyll learn the latest theories about Sir Walter Raleighs Lost Colony and Pocahontass rescue of John Smith. Theyll learn about the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe life on a Tidewater plantation and the role George Washington Thomas Jefferson Patrick Henry and other native sons played in the birth of the nation and the emergence of Virginia as the 10th state in 1788.