The Hidden History of Bermuda Is Reshaping the Way We Think About Colonial America
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Michael Jarvis, known as "Chainsaw Mike," is actively researching a long-forgotten 17th-century settlement on Smith's Island, shedding light on Bermuda's significant colonial history.
Historian Carla Pestana highlights Bermuda’s early economic success as instrumental for investors in the New World, marking it as the first financially successful plantation.
Bermuda’s contributions went beyond the economy; it provided essential food supplies to Jamestown and outpaced Plymouth as a site of early English colonization.
Despite its current reputation as a honeymoon destination, Bermuda played a crucial role in early colonization, with a prosperous settler population and agricultural practices.
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