Book Talk with Lora Chilton | 1666: A Novel

Author Lora Chilton, discusses her new work of historical fiction, "1666: A Novel," the survival story of the Patawomeck tribe of Virginia. Chilton, a member of the Patawomeck through the lineage of her father, used written colonial records and tribal oral tradition to imagine the lives of the Patawomeck women who were sold into slavery and shipped to Barbados to work in the sugar fields after the massacre of the tribe’s men in the summer of 1666. Against all odds, two women survive and, with determination and bravery, make their way back to their Virginia homeland.

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We look forward to seeing Ms. Chilton at the Pocahontas Reframed Film Festival November 22-24, 2024. The novel is wonderfully written; in-depth culture, love, heartbreak, and resilience about the little known history of the survival of the Patawomack people.