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Throughout the 19th century, as the character of Virginia Dare, the first English child born in North America, became a more and more popular figure in literature, she began to take on symbolic meaning that was explicitly racial. The poem I mentioned in part one, which has her transformed by a Native American shaman into a white doe, also has her curse being broken years later,

whereupon Virginia, the poet says, quote, lives to witness the natives' extinction and the wide occupation

of their forfeited patrimony by that superior race, the Anglo-Saxon, with their bondsmen,

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