Jamestown Argumentative Essay

As the Englishmen of future Jamestown set sail, they never stopped to think about how over half of the population of the new world would die within the first few month, as stated on www.jarofquotes.com, “Despair gives courage to a coward.”. A little bit of background info might be good, so here it is. The date is the spring of 1607, as well, the places are, Chesapeake Bay, the James River, and Jamestown itself. And finally, out of the background info, before they came, the English had many fights with the Spanish. But they had good hopes for the new world. There are many interesting facts about Jamestown, a few of which are that in all the time they were in Jamestown, there was only one execution. One other interesting fact is that they didn't know how to spell words, so they made up spellings. In early Jamestown, colonists died because of three main reasons, Starvation, Murder, and Water Problems. The colonists lost many to the first reason, Starvation. Some evidence of this which says “ Fish are present in local streams, but only in the spring and early summer are they in impressive abundance…”, this means there were very few fish to eat most of the time (Blanton 55). It is shown there was a
A quote from Hume (61) is, “Though West was able to was able to load his [small ship] with grain, the success involved ‘some harshe and [creul] dealinge by cutting of towe [two] of the Salvages heads and other extremetyes.’”. This shows that because the murdered and tortured the Indians, the Indians got revenge by killing them. Another quote, but from Fausz , is “Of 120 men stationed near the falls, the Indians killed ‘neere halfe’”(63). This quote shows that there were 51 men murdered by Indians. These quotes show the evidence that between those who deserted the others, and how many the Indians killed, there were many who died of murder. The evidence in the text shows that many were killed by the actions of