355 The Virginia Venture

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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On April 10th, 1606, King James I granted the Virginia Company of London a charter. Just over a year later, on May 14, 1607, this privately-funded, joint-stock company established the first, permanent English colony in North America at Jamestown, in the colony of Virginia. What work did the Virginia Company have to do to establish this colony? How much money did it have to raise, and from whom did it raise this money, to support its colonial venture? Misha Ewen, a Lecturer in early modern history at the University of Bristol and author of The Virginia Venture: American Colonization and English Society, 1580-1660, joins us to discuss the early history of the Virginia Company and its early investors. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/355 Complementary Episodes 🎧 Episode 079: James Horn, What is a Historic Source? 🎧 Episode 120: Marcia Zug, A History of Mail Order Brides in Early America 🎧 Episode 150: Woody Holton, Abigail Adams: Revolutionary Speculator 🎧 Episode 186: Max Edelson, The New Map of the British Empire 🎧 Episode 213: Rebecca Fraser, The Pilgrims of Plimoth 🎧 Episode 250: Virginia, 1619 🎧 Episode 274: Alan Gallay, Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire REQUEST A TOPIC 📨 Topic Request Form 📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.com WHEN YOU'RE READY 🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter👩‍💻 BFW Listener Community🌍 The History Explorers Club LISTEN 🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music 🛜 Pandora CONNECT 🦋 Liz on Bluesky 👩‍💻 Liz on LinkedIn 🛜 Liz’s Website SAY THANKS 💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts 💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an airwave media podcast.
0:04.0	Ben Franklin's world is The podcast dedicated to helping you of Ben Franklin's World.
0:22.6	The podcast dedicated to helping you,
0:25.0	learn more about how the people and events
0:26.9	of our early American past have shaped the present day
0:29.6	world we live in.
0:31.1	And I'm your host, Liz Co Vart.
0:34.0	On April 10, 1606, King James I of England granted the Virginia Company, which was a commercial
0:39.5	trading company, a charter so that it could undertake the work of establishing an English colony on the eastern
0:45.3	coast of North America.
0:47.5	Today we know that the Virginia Company successfully established the first permanent English colony
0:51.8	in North America at Jamestown, Virginia.
0:54.9	But what work did the Virginia company have to do to establish this colony?
0:59.2	And how much money did the company have to raise, and from whom did it raise this money to support its colonial venture?
1:05.2	Michu Ewen, a lecturer at the University of Bristol and a historian of early modern England and its Atlantic
1:11.5	World Empire, joins us to discuss the creation and
1:14.5	operation of the Virginia Company with details from her book, The Virginia Venture
1:19.1	American Colonization and English Society 1580 to 1660.
1:25.0	Now as we investigate the Virginia Company,
1:27.3	Meisha reveals details about the Virginia Company
1:30.8	and why England had to depend on trading companies like it to launch its
1:34.6	programs of colonization. The plans and work the Virginia Company had to undertake
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