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  2. Colony of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The Colony of Virginia was a British, colonial settlement in North America between 1606 and 1776. The first effort to create an English settlement in the area was chartered in 1584 and established in 1585; the resulting Roanoke Colony lasted for three attempts totaling six years. In 1590, the colony was abandoned.

  3. History of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624), by Capt. John Smith, one of the first histories of Virginia. The written history of Virginia begins with documentation by the first Spanish explorers to reach the area in the 16th century, when it was occupied chiefly by Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Siouan peoples.

  4. American Slavery, American Freedom - Wikipedia

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    Print, ebook, audiobook. Pages. 464 pages. ISBN. 039305554X. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia is a 1975 history text [1] by American historian Edmund Morgan. [2] The work was first published in September 1975 through W W Norton & Co Inc and is considered to be one of Morgan's seminal works. [3] [4]

  5. Why are Clemson and Georgia playing so early? Organizer ... - AOL

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    The stadium will be using the 75,000-seat set-up for Clemson-Georgia, Stokan confirmed, adding that both schools have already sold out the 25,000 tickets they were each allotted for the contest.

  6. Latest ruling in Clemson’s legal battle vs. ACC favors the ...

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    An N.C. judge on Wednesday had denied Clemson’s motions to dismiss and stay the ACC’s countersuit, indicating in his ruling that he thought North Carolina was the correct venue for the Clemson ...

  7. The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the ...

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    The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles. The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (often abbreviated to The Generall Historie) is a book written by Captain John Smith, first published in 1624. The book is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, histories of the territory administered by ...

  8. History of slavery in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    e. Slavery in Virginia began with the capture and enslavement of Native Americans during the early days of the English Colony of Virginia and through the late eighteenth century. They primarily worked in tobacco fields. Africans were first brought to colonial Virginia in 1619, when 20 Africans from present-day Angola arrived in Virginia aboard ...

  9. Linux - Wikipedia

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    Linux (/ ˈ l ɪ n ʊ k s /, LIN-uuks) [11] is a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, [12] an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.