Book Review, Virginia Under Charles I and Cromwell, 1625-1660 by Wilcomb E. Washburn

Book Review, Virginia Under Charles I and Cromwell, 1625-1660 by Wilcomb E. Washburn

As you guys know, my reviews can’t be academic from what they are.  I know how to do academic writing but instead just choose to be more informal about topics and Washburn’s history book on early Virginia doesn’t end with any judgement between Indians and English settlers.  There’s enough praise in my heart for this book since I’ve been interested in someday visiting parts of the South in the United States for understanding of cultures and Washburn’s book puts emphasis on those old age battles between the original natives and the recent natives, the Americans and the English, where heart has to find its place on either side from what’s presented in this small book.  What we see in the general history of Indians and Europeans is the constant struggle on both sides in being able to follow peace treaties and other laws considering the fact our internet today, for those times way back then, hadn’t yet existed; and as such, people in the past experience exaggerated forms of independence whether it’s from fellowship of law or flat-out betrayal of it.  Of course I’m not an expert on Virginian history and I’m just revealing what I’ve learned from this particular piece; in fact, while discussing matters of history we have to be leaning on each other with more disinterest since there will be people out there who have learned things that I never will, or that you never will, or that we’ll all never will, or that they’ll never know, and so forth.  Hunting laws in Virginia haven’t exactly been that consistent in terms of creation and fellowship and we can assume much was the same with colonial Virginia.  Why?  Because a creator of law can have mixed thoughts about his own creation and a follower of law can have mixed thoughts about his own fellowship.  The human mind does powerful things.  So, there’s a lot of implication in this small history book about struggles in old Virginia between Indians and Englishmen, or Native Americans and English settlers, events going the way of the dinosaur or coinciding with other matters related to the American continents.  When we say, “Columbus discovered America”, we’re being figurative.  To this day we still have people around the world who try to force beliefs and hobbies onto others.  And politics is more of a healthy thing than Americans treat it as sometimes; that’s because, situations happen for authority at times and authority changes based on progressing, cultural evolution.  How do we get our advantage when some other benefit is forgotten?  Well, we may not know much about Virginia, but at least Washburn’s book opens the doors for us to understand little things about freedom and oppression.  A world with nothing but oppression may have no oppression; a world with nothing but freedom may have no freedom.  From what I’ve read about freedom and oppression in this book even an English king can have those elements conflicting with each other on advantage and barrier, as an advantage can lead to a barrier and a barrier can lead to an advantage.  The writing in this book is well done, accurate as far as I can see, and, hopefully, these historical references will go down in history for our great, great, great and great grandchildren to become learned of.