Auntie Jo Jo's Library25 Sep 2025

History-Sode | Kids in 1671

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In this history-sode, Auntie JoJo takes listeners back to colonial Virginia in 1671. Through sound and storytelling, you’ll walk through a plantation at sunrise, sit at a colonial dinner table, peek at an early hornbook, and hear what might have scared kids and adults at night. This episode blends facts with imagination to make history feel alive.

Morning chores and daily life for children on a Virginia plantation
Typical colonial meals and why sugar was a rare treat
Education and church life in the 1600s
Games, storytelling, and simple fun kids made for themselves
The tobacco economy and colonial society under Governor Sir William Berkeley
The atmosphere of fear that sometimes led to witchcraft accusations

You can include this in your show notes/blog so listeners can learn more:

Lorena S. Walsh, Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit: Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake (University of North Carolina Press, 2010)
Philip Alexander Bruce, Institutional History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1910)
Library of Virginia – Digital Collections on Colonial Virginia Life
Encyclopedia Virginia, entries on Colonial Society and Governor Sir William Berkeley
Jamestown Settlement & American Revolution Museum – “Daily Life in 17th Century Virginia” (living history resources)

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