Immigrants were 5:1 male and many of both sexes were kidnapped or otherwise dragged to Virginia against their will. There's a contemporaneous song warning young English maidens of the perils of being abducted to the colony
Yeah here the generalization was mine and in retrospect probably dumb and over-hasty
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I actually wish Fischer would make those kinds of claims more often. I think The Great Wave, Fairness and Freedom, and especially Albion's Seed are great works, but they're works of exhaustive compilation rather than incisive history.
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(Read The Great Wave next.)
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