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16 de feb. de 2021 · John Rolfe (1585-1622) était un marchand anglais et un colon de Jamestown surtout connu en tant qu'époux de Pocahontas (c. 1596-1617). Il est également connu pour sa culture réussie du tabac en Virginie, qui fit de cette culture l'exportation la plus lucrative des premières colonies anglaises d'Amérique du Nord.
4 de sept. de 2022 · In 1616, Rolfe took his wife and infant son Thomas to England. Pocahontas died at Gravesend seven months later, just before returning to Virginia. A sad John Rolfe left his young son in the care of a guardian in England and returned to his adopted home. Upon his return to Virginia, he assumed more prominence in the colony.
Pocahontas married John Rolfe in 1614, and no other records even hint at any previous husband, so some have suggested that Strachey was mistakenly referring to Rolfe himself, with the reference being later misunderstood as one of Powhatan's officers. Marriage to John Rolfe John Gadsby Chapman, The Baptism of Pocahontas (1840).
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John Rolfe (c. 1585 – 1622) was one of the early English settlers of North America. He is credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export crop in the Colony of Virginia and is known as the husband of Pocahontas, daughter of the chief of the Powhatan Confederacy.The strain of tobacco cultivated by John Rolfe was the export cash crop that helped make the Virginia Colony ...
21 de mar. de 2021 · La sacó de esa pesadilla otro inglés, John Rolfe, un rico plantador de tabaco que logró un acuerdo con los secuestradores: liberarla a cambio de casarse con la muchacha y convertirla uno de ellos.
17 de may. de 2023 · Fue justamente el desempeño de esta función lo que dio lugar al famoso episodio del «matrimonio» de Pocahontas con John Rolfe, uno de los principales colonos de Jamestown, en 1613. Un enlace que, en la visión tradicional de los orígenes de Estados Unidos, simbolizaría el encuentro y la fusión entre europeos e indígenas, pero que puede verse de una manera diferente desde la perspectiva ...
