In late July 1609, Sea Venture, an English ship transporting colonists to the New World on her maiden voyage, was steered into a coral reef in the aftermath of a tempest, just days away from her destination of Jamestown, Virginia. Somehow, all 150 passengers survived, inadvertently settling Bermuda as they waded to shore. Among them was a dog, the ship’s mascot, which, according to the press release for this exhibition, later became a symbol of collective resistance against the Virginia Company (a corporate entity seeking to establish settlements on the coast of North America) and thus, too, an