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The Chesapeake in Focus: Transforming the Natural World

Tom Pelton · Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages: 252
Format: Paperback

When Captain John Smith arrived in Virginia in 1607, he discovered a paradise in the Chesapeake Bay. In the centuries that followed, the Bay changed vastly -- and not for the better. European landowners and enslaved Africans slashed, burned, and cleared the surrounding forests to grow tobacco....
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