Daniel Blake Smith is the author of Inside the Great House: Planter Family Life in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Society and a professor of colonial American history at the University of Kentucky.
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The English had long dreamed of colonizing America, especially after Sir Francis Drake brought home Spanish treasure and dramatic tales from his raids in the Caribbean. Ambitions of finding gold and planting a New World colony seemed within reach when, in... SEE MORE