Virtual Lecture – Colonial Contact Points

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Dr. Richard Bell

Dr. Richard Bell

Why did the English come to America? By 1592, a century after Columbus first claimed parts of America for the Spanish monarchy, the growing size and wealth of Spain’s overseas empire had begun to make other European powers jealous. In England, Queen Elizabeth I began soliciting plans from the country’s venture capitalists to claim some of that bounty for the English crown. But what sort of outposts could thrive? Trading posts? Plantations? Settler colonies? And how would Native peoples respond to these English newcomers? Over the next fifty years, English settlers built a string of outposts on the other side of the Atlantic, first in the Chesapeake, then in New England, and later in Pennsylvania, creating three wildly different visions of what English settlement in the New World could look like.

Advance registration required. Registration closes one half hour prior to lecture.

Cost: FREE