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 | | While Price draws in the other significant events at Jamestown — the starving times, John Rolfe's cultivation of tobacco, the arrival of Africans in Virginia, and the Powhatan uprising of 1622, among others — his tale returns to these two people. |
 | | Still, these earlier events all become deep background as the first wave of English colonists struggled to maintain their tiny fort against tremendous dangers and hardships, enduring starvation, Indian attacks, and disease. |
 | | Contrary to other historians, Censer finds a loosening of some social restrictions, a modest expansion of women's property rights, and the entry of women into new areas of the public sphere, especially through employment and writing. |
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