For material on POCAHONTAS and the Powhatans, see:

Philip Barbour, Pocahontas and Her World (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969).

James Merrell,The Indians' New World ( Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989).

Frances Mossiker, Pocahontas (New York: Knopf, 1976).

Helen Rountree, The Powhatan Indians of Virginia (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989).

------. Pocahontas's People (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990).

Robert S. Tilton, Pocahontas: The Evolution of an American Narrative (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).

Grace Steele Woodward, Pocahontas (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1969).

For EARLY ACCOUNTS of the Virginia settlement, see:

Ralph Hamor, (1615) A True Discourse of the Present Estate of Virginia: London 1615. The English Experience, no. 320 ( Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum 1971).

Edward Neill, History of the Virginia Company of London. (Albany, N.Y., 1969).

Samuel Purchas, (1625) Hakluytus posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes, 20 vols. (Glasgow: J. Maclehose, 1905-07).

Records of the Virginia Company of London, Vol. 3, ed. Susan Kingsbury (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1933).

John Smith, The Complete Works of Captain John Smith, ed. Philip Barbour. 3 vols. ( Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986).
-----. (1608) A True Relation. In Smith 1986, 1:1-117.
-----. (1612) A Map of Virginia. In Smith 1986, 1:119-190.
-----. (1612) Proceedings of the English Colonie in Virginia. In Smith 1986, 1:191-289.
-----. (1624) The Generall Historie of Virginia. In Smith 1986, 2:25-488.

William Strachey, The Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britania, ed. R. H. Major (London: Hakluyt Society, 1849).

Edward Waterhouse (1622), A Declaration of the State of the Colony and Affaires in Virginia. with a Relation of the Barbarous Massacre. (Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1970).

Alexander Whitaker, Good News from Virginia (London, 1613).

For the work of SIMON VAN DE PASSE, see

F. W. H. Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700. Vol. 16, De Passe. Ed. K. G. Boon. Amsterdam: van Gendt, 1974.

For discussion of questions of RACE in the early modern period, see

Margaret Ferguson, "Juggling the Categories of Gender, Race, and Class in Aphra Behn's Oronooko" in Women, "Race," and Writing in the Early Modern Period, ed. Margo Hendricks and Patricia Parker.

Kim Hall, "I Rather Would Wish to Be a Black-moor": Beauty, Race, and Rank in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania," in Women, "Race," and Writing in the Early Modern Period, ed. Margo Hendricks and Patricia Parker.

Margo Hendricks, "Civility, Barbarism, and Aphra Behn's The Widow Ranter" in Women, "Race," and Writing in the Early Modern Period, ed. Margo Hendricks and Patricia Parker, 225-239

Margo Hendricks and Patricia Parker, eds. , Women, "Race," and Writing in the Early Modern Period (London: Routledge, 1994).

Winthrop Jordan, White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 ( Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1968).

Edmund Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom (New York: Norton, 1975).

Verena Stolcke, "Invaded Women: Gender, Race, and Class in the Formation of Colonial Society," in Women, "Race," and Writing in the Early Modern Period, ed. Margo Hendricks and Patricia Parker.

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