"The bringing together of the English planter and the Indian princess was hailed as a turning point in the settlement's fortunes. If this daughter of the Powhatan people could be converted to Christian understanding and joined in civil partnership, then so could the country that gave birth to her. Virginia, as the English saw it, had survived the onslaughts of the Spanish empire and Catholic Church with her maidenhood intact. She had now surrendered it to the English nation and the Protestant cause." - Savage Kingdom (2007), Benjamin Woolley (p. 321)
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