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Plain Paths and Dividing Lines: How Southeastern Travelers Challenged Colonial Authority
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Plain Paths and Dividing Lines: How Southeastern Travelers Challenged Colonial Authority - Jessica Taylor
It is one thing to draw a line in the sand but another to enforce it. This talk will follow the Native peoples and the newcomers who crossed emerging boundaries surrounding Indigenous towns and developing English plantations in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake Bay. In a riverine landscape defined by networks, Algonquians had cultivated ties to one another and into the continent for centuries. Their networks continued to define the watery Chesapeake landscape, even as Virginia and Maryland planters erected fences and forts, policed unfree laborers and Native neighbors, and dispatched land surveyors. At the same time, escaping indentured and enslaved people resisted subjugation fueled by Native networks and their own alternate visions of freedom and connection in the colonial Chesapeake.
Jessica Taylor is an assistant professor in the history department at Virginia Tech. As a public historian, she collaborates on projects across the Southeast as diverse as oral histories with boatbuilders, augmented reality tours of historic sites, and reconstructed maps of pre-colonial landscapes. Her current work connects graduate and undergraduate students to history firsthand through fieldwork experiences in oral history, and an ongoing project documenting escape attempts of indentured servants and enslaved people in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake.
It is one thing to draw a line in the sand but another to enforce it. This talk will follow the Native peoples and the newcomers who crossed emerging boundaries surrounding Indigenous towns and developing English plantations in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake Bay. In a riverine landscape defined by networks, Algonquians had cultivated ties to one another and into the continent for centuries. Their networks continued to define the watery Chesapeake landscape, even as Virginia and Maryland planters erected fences and forts, policed unfree laborers and Native neighbors, and dispatched land surveyors. At the same time, escaping indentured and enslaved people resisted subjugation fueled by Native networks and their own alternate visions of freedom and connection in the colonial Chesapeake.
Jessica Taylor is an assistant professor in the history department at Virginia Tech. As a public historian, she collaborates on projects across the Southeast as diverse as oral histories with boatbuilders, augmented reality tours of historic sites, and reconstructed maps of pre-colonial landscapes. Her current work connects graduate and undergraduate students to history firsthand through fieldwork experiences in oral history, and an ongoing project documenting escape attempts of indentured servants and enslaved people in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake.
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