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Jack Temple Kirby charts the history of the low country between the James River in Virginia and Albemarle Sound in North Carolina. The Algonquian word for this country, which means 'swamp-on-a-hill,' was transliterated as 'poquosin' by seventeenth-century English settlers. Interweaving social, political, economic, and military history with the story of the landscape, Kirby shows how Native American, African, and European peoples have adapted to and modified this Tidewater area in the nearly four

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Author

Jack Temple Kirby

Publisher

Published for the Rhode Island Historical Society [by] the University of North Carolina Press

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807812853

Category

history

Subjects

Economics, History, Nature

Updated

2026-03-25