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The first enslaved Africans were transported to Virginia in 1619. Prior to that time, indenture by European Americans was the primary means of labor control. Indenture was a contract system, by...
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Voyage 2 (1608) of Chesapeake by James Michener begins in 1606 when Captain John Smith, who will sail to Virginia on The Susan Constant, takes the twenty five year old Edmund Steed in hand to sail...
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The seventh voyage described in Chesapeake is unique because it is the only voyage that does not feature any of the major families from near Patamoke as principal characters. The Paxmore family...
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The Paxmore family is one of the main families whose history is traced through the time span covered in Chesapeake. Edward and Ruth Brinton Paxmore are Quakers who settle in the Chesapeake Bay...
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Closely tied to the landscape, the characters of Pentaquod and Rosalind give faces to the people who lived in their time and place in history; in addition, the reader obtains the history of the...
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Pusey Paxmore left Peace Cliff and his family to work for President Richard Nixon. He ardently believed in the need for President Nixon's leadership in the face of rising civil dangers in the...
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James Michener’s 1978 novel Chesapeake tells the history of the Chesapeake Bay along the mid-Atlantic Coast of the United States from 1583 to 1978 through the stories of families who lived on its...
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Voyage 3 in Chesapeake begins with the judge who will commute Timothy Turlock's sentence from hanging to one of banishment from England. He will travel with a certain Captain Barstowe to Virginia...
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"Voyage 4: 1661" of Chesapeake starts by discussing that the indentured servant Paxmore is not trusted, has starting wandering around and has had spies set upon him monitoring his movements. For...
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Like many of his books, James Michener's Chesapeake is a long-form history of a particular region, detailing various families during their lives and how they act and react to the changing times....
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There are any number of summaries available online for James Michener's tome of historical fiction that is a panoramic view of the history (400 years) of this beautiful area in the Chesapeake Bay,...
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Voyage Six: 1773 opens with the appointment of the unconscionable Jonathan Wilcok as Rector Wrentham north of the Choptank, a position for which he blackmails young Lord Baltimore in a compromising...
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In Voyage 5 of Chesapeake, Rosalind Janney, so called after Shakespeare's "fair Rosalind" in Twelfth Night," is introduced to the reader. Unfortunately, she does not have the looks of the Rosalind...
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In Chesapeake by James A Michener, the story begins with Voyage 1 in 1583. Pentaquod, a Susquehannocks, is a peace-loving Indian but this goes against his tribe which believes that its ability to...
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James Michener's Chesapeake shows the long, complex history of families as they deal with four hundred years of change in developing America. The Turlock family represent the poverty of so many...
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Voyage Fourteen is the funeral procession, by barge and boat, carrying the body of Pusey Paxmore from Peace Cliff to the Quaker burial grounds in Patamoke after he commits suicide. In spite of the...
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Voyage One takes place in 1583, when Pentaquod leaves the Susquehannock tribe. He has come to feel that the constant warfare they pursue against others was "a meaningless war" and determines to...
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One day in the 1930's, Woolman Paxmore was working in the field one day, harvesting corn on the north bank of the Choptank, when a powerful, straightforward thought occurred to him: Jesus Christ...
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The two most important participants in the duel were Sir Trevor Gatch, captain of the British sailing ship Dartmoor, and Matthew Turlock, captain of the Whisper until Gatch destroyed it, and then...
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In Chesapeake, the Turlock family, descended from Timothy Turlock, reveal the struggles of a family descended from a common thief, sentenced to hanging because he has been caught stealing more than...
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James Michener's sweeping novel Chesapeake is a grand historical novel comprised of both fictional and historical figures who live through most of the major events in American history from Native...
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Like many of James Michener's tomes, Chesapeake is historical fiction. As such, it is part of a popular American genre in which the historical background serves to lend verisimilitude to the...
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The voyage referred to is Rosalind Janney's trip from her parents' plantation to Devon Island and to her arranged marriage to Fitzhugh Steed, the well-to-do but old (40 years) and Catholic owner of...
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With a quick fix of punctuation, it's much easier to understand your question. You are asking about the chapter of Chesapeake entitled "Voyage Seven: 1811." It is a unique voyage of the novel...
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Bartley Paxmore undertakes Voyage 10, sailing from Peace Cliff up the Miles River to the home of Rachel Starbuck with the intent of asking for permission to marry her. During his time staying with...
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The Voyage Eight: 1822 section focuses on the natural phenomenon that was the annual migration of Canada geese from the Arctic nesting grounds where they spent the summer months to southern areas...
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Voyage 11 portrays the ramifications in the Chesapeake Bay of weather events far away. A huge hurricane causes an enormous rainfall in the Susquehanna Valley, resulting in flood waters filled with...
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Voyage Nine describes the voyage that brought Cudjo from his home village near the Xanga River in the Congo to the United States as a slave. Cudjo was suspicious of the Arabian slave traders from...
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Questions about Michener's novel of settlement in Chesapeake--beginning with the settlement of the area by the Susquehannock tribe to the three European families that came after them--can be...
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One conflict you could mention is that between Roman Catholics and Quakers. This is a religious conflict, but there are others which touch upon this too such as the tensions about slavery. Poverty...