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3. Ironically, when the English arrived in Virginia...

Reply to TheBlackAdder (Original post)

Wed Aug 21, 2019, 11:53 AM

Aug 2019

... the Algonquian nations they met there had a fully-fledged system of heritable, partible land ownership whereas the English theory of property ownership was still mired in feudal-era encumbrances. Pocahontas could own land in fee simple but John Rolfe could not.

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