In 1666, in their efforts to steal the land of the Patawomeck people in what is now Virginia, colonists massacred the men of the Patawomeck tribe and took the women and children as slaves, marching them to the coast to slave ships that would take most of them to their deaths in the brutal sugar fields of the Barbados. Author … Read More
Join us for Commemorative 1666 Day at the Patawomeck Museum and Cultural Center April 20th
Join us on Saturday, April 20 at the Patawomeck Museum and Cultural Center at 638 Kings Highway, Fredericksburg, Virginia for a half day event commemorating the Patawomeck people and the new book 1666: A Novel by Lora Chilton, a member of the tribe. Lora imagines the legendary story behind the tribe’s survival based on written colonial records and tribal oral tradition, told from the fictionalized point of view of the two women who lived it. … Read More
