Kelso's fascinating Jamestown: The Buried Truth. "starving time," provides a highpoint in William M. It is a historical irony that this period of misery, the The winter of 1609 and the spring of 1610 were particularly It is said that dreams die hard, but at Jamesįort the dreamer's end came all too easily. Hardships, all conspired against the earliest colonial Virginians'ĭreams of a better life. Outsiders, life-threatening accidents, volatile arguments among theĬolonists themselves and the machinations of Spanish spies, among other Water either too salty orĬontaminated, food spoiled by heat and humidity, crops destroyed byĭrought, disease spread by insects, Indians fiercely hostile to The first settlers at James Fort, later expanded into Jamestown, soonĭiscovered the dark side of such fantasies. Of course advertisements, then and now, are notoriously unreliable. And these men preferred to imagine the ready Largely grain-eaters who valued animals as a culinary luxury as well asĪ profitable resource. Survival, landless men became the most likely prospects to undertake theĭangerous transatlantic journey. Importance of real estate to one's social standing and economic Intimated a plentitude of land, meat and women. The earliest advertisements for New World settlement promised or Jamestown: The Buried Truth." Retrieved from 2007 Texas A&M University, Department of English 27 May. Jamestown: The Buried Truth." The Free Library.
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