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There was little in the way of Christmas celebration during those early years at Jamestown—people struggling for their very existence tend to neglect anything beyond the essentials. Food and shelter were their priorities, their faith in God their mainstay.
It wasn’t until the later part of the century, when tobacco had set the struggling Virginia colony on its feet, that life became marginally livable—even comfortable for the fortunate few. Landowners could afford to indulge in holiday observances, and many of the old English Christmas customs were transplanted to Virginia’s fertile soil.
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