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3. A recent book about the Roanoke colony talks about this

Reply to IronLionZion (Original post)

Thu Aug 23, 2018, 03:38 PM

Aug 2018

The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke by Andrew Lawler has a chapter on how Virginia Dare became the darling of White supremacists c. 1900, even though only 3 things are known about her: she was born, she was baptized, she disappeared along with the rest of the colonists. Most likely she died in infancy as did a lot of children back then, but that didn't stop mythologizers from concocting all sorts of stories in which she played the heroine. Poor kid: even if she did survive and lead a happy life she gets all this AltRight crap dumped on her.

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Virginia Dare's unwanted legacy: A white nationalist-friendly website called Vdare [View all] IronLionZion Aug 2018 OP

How ironic. Named after an Anchor Baby. Celebrates chain migration. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2018 #1

As a kid, I loved her soda. LOL Totally Tunsie Aug 2018 #2

A recent book about the Roanoke colony talks about this Retrograde Aug 2018 #3