Pocahontas
c. 1596-1617 · The Americas (Virginia) · Early Modern
Powhatan woman known for her role in relations between the Powhatan people and English colonists in Virginia.
Portrait: Unidentified Artist; copy after Simon van de Passe · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons
- Birthplace
- The Americas (Virginia)
- Known as
- Powhatan woman known for her role in relations between the Powhatan people and English colonists in Virginia.
Pocahontas (c. 1596-1617) endures among the great of The Americas (Virginia). Powhatan woman known for her role in relations between the Powhatan people and English colonists in Virginia. Across the early modern age, this life and its works passed into the shared inheritance of humankind — kept here so the memory is never lost. Honored among the Great Ones of every civilization. Africa is the cradle of humankind; in the deepest sense, these are everyone’s ancestors — and so this name is kept, from the cradle of humanity to all its children.
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