Robert Remini
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20,180 appearances
4 recordings
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 19 Sep
Robert Remini’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Indeed, the early history of Virginia is given mainly to accounts of, quote, starving times.
Of the first thousand colonists, not one hundred lived to tell the tale of those early days.
33.
Sir Thomas Dale in Good Order
In 1611, Sir Thomas Dale came out as ruler, and he ruled with an iron hand.
If a man refused to work, Dale made a slave of him for three years.
If he did not work hard enough, Dale had him soundly whipped.
But Sir Thomas Dale was not only a severe man, he was also a wise man.
Hitherto, everything had been in common.
Dale now tried the experiment of giving three acres of land to every one of the old planters, and he also allowed them time to work on their own land.
34.
Tobacco Growing and Prosperity European people were now beginning to use tobacco.
Most of it came from the Spanish colonies.
Tobacco grew wild in Virginia, but the colonists at first did not know how to dry it and make it fit for smoking.
After a few years, they found out how to prepare it.
They now worked with great eagerness and planted tobacco on every spot of cleared land.
Men with money came over from England.
They brought many working men with them and planted large pieces of ground.
Soon tobacco became the money of the colony, and the whole life of Virginia turned on its cultivation.
But it was difficult to find enough laborers to do the necessary work.
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