Early views of Virginia Indians

From: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

ALTHOUGH Robert Beverley published his 1705 book, The History and Present State of Virginia, in London, his point of view was that of a Virginia colonist. Beverley thought little of "what has been publish'd concerning Virginia" and in that vein he offered an analogy to artistic portraits: "Such Accounts are as impertinent as ill Pictures, that resemble any Body, as much as the Persons they are drawn for. For my part, I have endeavour'd to hit the Likeness."1

In his book, Beverley was the only native Virginia author before the nineteenth century to offer illustrations of the Indians of the ...

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