A young people's history of Virginia and Virginians .. . hey made their homeswere not forced out of Eng-their religious belief or otherpeculiarities, but came freelysearch of fortune and adven-seen in this day California,South Africa colonized andgreat communities by theThe First Settlers.—In theof Jamestown, Smith com-his men were gentlemen,tinctive designation of themen whose condition and rear-them from themanual labor,gentlemen didnot know howto work, but theywere soon com-pelled to do theirshare of whatwas necessary,and they becamethe best work-:men, as theywere the mostintelligent. As,in
A young people's history of Virginia and Virginians .. . hey made their homeswere not forced out of Eng-their religious belief or otherpeculiarities, but came freelysearch of fortune and adven-seen in this day California,South Africa colonized andgreat communities by theThe First Settlers.—In theof Jamestown, Smith com-his men were gentlemen,tinctive designation of themen whose condition and rear-them from themanual labor,gentlemen didnot know howto work, but theywere soon com-pelled to do theirshare of whatwas necessary,and they becamethe best work-:men, as theywere the mostintelligent. As,in course of a few years, the colony grew and prospered, ?Where President Davis and General Lee worshipped during the war, and whereMr. Davis was notified of the retreat of Lees army. attributable toStill more to thethey were placedover here. Theyland because ofobjectionableand eagerly inture, as we haveAustralia andbuilt up intosame influences,first settlementplained that halfin that day a dis-class of English-ing exemptedd rudgery o fAt first these. ST. PAULS CHURCH, EICHMOND.* History of Virginia and Virginians. 211 more of this class were invited to make their homes inVirginia. Royalists.—Many of the royalists who came over afterthe execution of King Charles I., as you have seen, wereof the gentry, and there came with them their retainersand servants, who had been their hereditary tenants—who had been their comrades andfollowers in the fierce war for therights of the king—and naturallyfollowed their fortunes to slavery in time created a dis-tinctly menial class for the wealthyplanters, and the less prosperouswhites became managers on theplantations or small farmers andtenants, laboring with their own J^ihands, it is true, but in fact and ^r | feeling independent, and on friendlyterms with their wealthy neighbors,whose equals they were in birth,and companions in their sports andcomrades in the frequent wars withthe Indians. Class Distinctions Abolished.
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