The story of the founding of Virginia is extremely dark and violent. The colonization of Virginia was a craze for power and a lack of human respect. The colonies thought that they had divine right to the land, and therefore divine right to murder and steal from the natives. The land that is now Virginia was originally Tsenacomoco. The history of Virginia is filled with bloodshed, which is something I was not previously aware of. I was not taught much about Virginian history in school or about Native American history as a whole. I was surprised to learn that the driving force of greed among the colonizers was masked as religious values. Although the settlers had no regard for non-English life, they saw nothing wrong with what they were doing.
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