Desperate Shores - The Anglo-Powhatan Wars
On the morning of March 22, 1622, in roughly two dozen English settlements along the James River in Virginia, Powhatan men sat down to breakfast with English families they had known for years. By 1622...
28 Mar 202126min
Desperate Shores — The Nations
For six episodes, they were always present — standing at the edge of the English story, named but rarely centered. This episode brings them forward. The nations of the eastern seaboard in 1620 were no...
27 Mar 202124min
Desperate Shores - The Mayflower
September 6th, 1620. The Mayflower leaves England six weeks late, on a companion ship's suspicious leaking, heading into the North Atlantic in autumn with two groups of people who have almost nothing ...
26 Mar 202126min
Desperate Shores — Rebecca Rolfe
She was the daughter of the most powerful chief on the Virginia coast. She was taken hostage at seventeen. She learned English, converted to Christianity, married a tobacco farmer, and sailed to Londo...
22 Mar 202114min
Desperate Shores —The Starving Time
May 14th, 1607. One hundred and four men and boys wade ashore onto a low, marshy Virginia peninsula and drive stakes into the ground. This is Jamestown — the first permanent English settlement in Amer...
21 Mar 202113min
Desperate Shores — Roanoke
On August 27th, 1587, Governor John White stood at the rail of a ship watching the Carolina coast disappear. He was sailing back to England for supplies. Left behind on a sandy barrier island: over a ...
19 Mar 202115min
Desperate Shores - The Price of Passage
The Virginia Company had a pitch: seven years of labor in exchange for passage to the New World and ten acres of land at the end of it. The handbill promised a second son his fortune. A new start. A l...
16 Mar 202121min
Desperate Shores — The World That Sent Them
Before Roanoke. Before Jamestown. Before any English ship sailed west with settlers and catastrophically bad planning, there was the world that sent them. Europe in 1500 was not the Europe we know — i...
16 Mar 202113min
