Posted on 07/25/2018 12:37:39 PM PDT by ETL
one of the first politicians and slave owners in the American colonies.
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Certainly not the first slave owner in Americas.
Indians were often slave owners.
Head missing Democrat
Spine missing Republican
Why was the body and skull in two different places?..................
Looks like he ran afoul of Hillary..
Thanks ETL.
When does grave robbing become archeology?
It wasn’t found in a topless bar?
Headless Body found in Topless Grave.......................
The moment the descendents’ curiousity is greater than their apathy or grief.
TOTALLY unnecessary to have added that irrelevant piece of information.
Yeardley didnt come to Jamestown until 1610 (he left London in June 1609, but a hurricane blew his ship off course to Bermuda). He became Jamestown governor in 1616, at the age of 29. He was later knighted by King James I in Britain, and then he returned to Jamestown with instructions from the Virginia Company, which controlled the colony, to create a laudable form of government . . . [for] the people there inhabiting, according to historical documents, The Washington Post reported.
The plan worked. In June of 1619, a group of 30 men met at the church the archaeologists are now excavating.
That same year, America received its first group of enslaved Africans. The slaves, taken from Angola in west central Africa, were on a Spanish ship bound for Vera Cruz, Mexico, until two English privateer ships attacked and took up to 60 of the Africans to Point Comfort, in what is now Hampton, Virginia said David Givens, director of archaeology at Jamestown Rediscovery. Yeardley purchased eight of the people, Givens told Live Science.
With the 400th anniversary of both of these events approaching, archaeologists hope to learn more about Yeardley, starting with the identification of his body, the researchers said. Although the DNA work is yet to come, the skeleton does offer several clues: It comes from a robust man in his late 30s or early 40s, which would match Yeardley, who died at age 40, in 1627, the archaeologists told The Washington Post.
Moreover, the skeletons hands are at its sides not crossed over the pelvis indicating that this burial was an important one, likely laid out so that people could see the body before its final burial, Hartley said. And in the early 1900s, people found a tomb slab engraved with knightly symbolsin the church. Given that Yeardley was a knight, its possible this limestone slab belonged to him, Hartley said.
She also noted that the burial is located in front of the churchs altar, a pretty prime spot to be buried, Hartley said.
The soil and artifacts at the burial match the right time period, Givens added. The team also plans to radiocarbon date the bones and do isotopic testing (an isotope is a variation of an element that has a varying number of neutrons in its nucleus) on the remains so that they can tell whether the individual drank water from England as a youth, he said.
https://www.techawais.com/headless-body-might-be-one-of-americas-1st-politicians/
Yardley died in 1627. Slaves were quite rare in the Jamestown settlement at that time. Most servants were English and were bound to a master by an indenture. The terms of the indenture were usually for a period of seven years after which the servant was set free and given a parcel of land and farming implements. The indenture usually paid for the cost of their passage to Virginia.
Christians could not be made slaves, but Indians could be made slaves and the settlers tried to do that, but since they could easily escape, that practice did not last. The Portuguese began the slave trade buying Africans from Africans and selling them in Brazil and later in the Caribbean and America.
I read a different article that said during the excavation of a known grave many years ago, the excavators may have slightly over-dug into Yardley’s grave and found the skull but didn’t excavate further. The Yardley grave itself is right in front of the alter of the original church in the center of the aisle, so a very prominent placing, whoever the person may have been.
——Indians were often slave owners.——
Now you did it.....triggered a bunch of Howard Zinn sychophants...
...and you right....
It might have been a Venerated Relic................
There were BLACK slave owners as well...................
Jamestown ping.
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