• British Brides for American Tobacco: A Tudor Trade

  • Sep 2 2024
  • Length: 35 mins
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British Brides for American Tobacco: A Tudor Trade

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  • In 1621 the Virginia Company of London put out a call for young, handsome and honestly educated women to become wives for the planters in its new colony in Jamestown. Hopeful husbands were supposed to pay for their English brides in best leaf tobacco. But who were the women who made the Atlantic crossing? And what became of them when they arrived in America?


    In this episode of our sister History Hit podcast, Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb meets author Jennifer Potter to find out more about the lives of these extraordinary women.


    ***Warning: This podcast includes references to slaughter and hostage taking.


    This episode was produced by Rob Weinberg.


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