The Starving Time by Marianne Bates What was
“The Starving Time” by Marianne Bates
What was “The Starving Time”? • Jamestown — 1608 -1610 • Limited food supply • Stolen livestock • Death
What happened? • Late crop planting • Marshy swamp location • Powhatan Native Americans • Disease • Jamestown abandoned
Primary Source “Nay, so great was our famine, that a Salvage we slew and buried, . . .
“…the poorer sort tooke him up againe and eat him; and so did divers one another boyled and stewed with roots and herbs. .
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“This was that time, which still to this day [1624] we called the starving time. ” --Captain John Smith
Cause and Effect • There was not enough food in Jamestown. • The number of colonists fell from 200 to 38 in the winter of 1607.
Works Cited “Explorers, Pioneers, and Frontiersmen The Starving Time, Jamestown, 1609 -10. ” NWtravel. Magazine Online. Undated. Available: http: //www. u-s-history. com/pages/h 533. html Images: “Atlantic Sturgeon. ” http: //fish. dnr. cornell. edu/nyfish/acipenseridae/atlantic_sturgeon. jpg “Burial of Jamestown’s Dead. ” http: //www. nasa. gov/images/content/174367 main_jamestown-needs-3 -325. jpg “Captain John Smith. ” http: //img. timeinc. net/time/daily/2007/0705/a_james_johnsmith_0507. jpg “Graves in James Port, Jamestown. ” http: //www. flickr. com/photos/leonandloisphotos/1460336967/ “Jamestown. ” http: //www. williamsburgprivatetours. com/images/jamestown_fort. jpg “Marsh Grass. ” http: //upload. wikimedia. org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7 f/Marsh_grass. jpg/180 px. Marsh_grass. jpg Reed, Patrick. “John Smith’s Account of the Starving Time. ” Northern Virginia Community College. 2008. Available: http: //www. nvcc. edu/home/preed/ starvingtimesup. htm
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