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Various tribes each held some individual powers locally, and each had a chief known as a weroance (male) or, more rarely, a weroansqua (female), meaning "commander". [13]As early as the era of John Smith, the individual tribes of this grouping were recognized by English colonists as falling under the greater authority of the centralized power led by the chiefdom of Powhatan (c. 1545 – c ...
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During Cocke's tenure at Belmead, he owned a number of slaves who were forced to work on the plantation. According to US Federal Census Records, 82 slaves worked on Belmead in 1840. That number increased to 118 in 1850, 127 in 1854, and 124 in 1860. These slaves had an assortment of tasks on the tobacco and grain plantation. [4]
Garlic was born in 1837 as the youngest of thirteen children to an enslaved woman in Powhatan, Virginia. [11] Garlic was taken by slave speculators as an infant, and she did not know eleven of her thirteen siblings or her father.
The Indian massacre of 1622 took place in the English colony of Virginia on March 22, 1621/22 ().English explorer John Smith, though he was not an eyewitness, wrote in his History of Virginia that warriors of the Powhatan "came unarmed into our houses with deer, turkeys, fish, fruits, and other provisions to sell us"; [2] they then grabbed any tools or weapons available and killed all English ...
Slaves in Indian Territory across the United States were used for many purposes, from work in the plantations of the East, to guides across the wilderness, to work in deserts of the West, or as soldiers in wars. Native American slaves suffered from European diseases and inhumane treatment, and many died while in captivity. [32]
A 1585 painting of a Chesapeake Bay warrior by John White; this painting was adapted to represent Opechancanough in the engraving above.. Opechancanough (/ oʊ p ə ˈ tʃ æ n k ə n oʊ / oh-pə-CHAN-kə-noh; c. 1554–1646) [2] was paramount chief of the Powhatan Confederacy in present-day Virginia from 1618 until his death.
Rachel Findlay was born enslaved in the early 1750s in Virginia, in the area now known as Powhatan County. [4]Her mother was possibly of both Indian and African ancestry, and her maternal grandmother was named Chance, an illegally enslaved Indian woman from either the Catawba or Choctaw nation.