"Cooperatively" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sometimes contained hundreds of planters. Frequently the "plantation" was located within a loop of the James River. The members of the settlement planted their crops within the loop, and set up palisades and forts at the open end for their common defense. Sentinels and guards were provided cooperatively to man the defenses. As the settlers increased in numbers and the power of their governors and of the Indians to restrain them decreased, however, they tended to leave the organized communities and to carve out for themselves individual plantations ...
— Virginia Under Charles I And Cromwell, 1625-1660 • Wilcomb E. Washburn |
