history question

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the professor using turnitin to grade 

the due time is today befor 23:00

REQUIRED TEXT:

Corbett, P S., et al. U.S. History. Houston, Texas Minneapolis: OpenStax College, Rice

University, Open Textbook Library, 2014.

https://cnx.org/contents/a7ba2fb8-8925-4987-b182-5f4429d48daa (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

This assignment will be due on Sunday by 11:59pm. You are to submit it in the inbox below in the accepted formats. One single spaced or two double spaced pages is acceptable. Be sure to answer all the questions fully and provide examples to back your answer where appropriate. It will be more helpful if you write your responses after reading Chapters 1 through 3. Your answers should reflect your own voice and words. 

George Percy On “The Starving Time”

—George Percy, “A True Relation of the Proceedings and Occurances of Moment which have happened in Virginia from the Time Sir Thomas Gates shipwrecked upon the Bermudes anno 1609 until my departure out of the Country which was in anno Domini 1612,” London 1624

Winter 1609-1610—The “Starving Time”

Now all of us at James Town, beginning to feel that sharp prick of hunger which no man truly describe but he which has tasted the bitterness thereof, a world of miseries ensued as the sequel will express unto you, in so much that some to satisfy their hunger have robbed the store for the which I caused them to be executed. Then having fed upon horses and other beasts as long as they lasted, we were glad to make shift with vermin as dogs, cats, rats, and mice. All was fish that came to net to satisfy cruel hunger as to eat boots, shoes, or any other leather some could come by, and, those being spent and devoured, some were enforced to search the woods and to feed upon serpents and snakes and to dig the earth for wild and unknown roots, where many of our men were cut off of and slain by the savages. And now famine beginning to look ghastly and pale in every face that nothing was spared to maintain life and to do those things which seem incredible as to dig up dead corpses out of graves and to eat them, and some have licked up the blood which has fallen from their weak fellows. And among the rest this was most lamentable, that one of our colony murdered his wife, ripped the child out of her womb and threw it into the river, and after chopped the mother in pieces and salted her for his food. The same not being discovered before he had eaten part thereof, for the which cruel and inhumane fact I ajudged him to be executed, the acknowledgement of the deed being enforced from him by torture having hung by the thumbs with weights at his feet a quarter of an hour before he would confess the same. . . .

By this time being reasonable well recovered of my sickness, I did undertake a journey to Algernon Fort, both to understand how things were there ordered, as also to have been revenged of the savages at Kekowhatan who had treacherously slain divers of our men. Our people I found in good case and well, liking having concealed their plenty from us above at James Town, being so well stored that the crab fishes where with they had fed their hogs would have been a great relief unto us and saved many of our lives. But their intent was for to have kept some of the better sort alive and with their two pinnaces to have returned for England not regarding our miseries and wants at all, wherewith I taxed Captain Davis and told him that I had a full intent to bring half of our men from James Town to be there relieved and after to return them back again and bring the rest to be sustained there also. And if all this would not serve to save our men’s lives I purposed to bring them all unto Algernon Fort, telling Captain Davis that another town or fort might be erected and built but men’s lives once lost could never be recovered.

Questions to answer:

1. Who is George Percy and what is his role in Jamestown?

2. What is your reaction to George Percy’s story?

3. How do you think Jamestown managed to survive after such an experience?

4. What do you think the Jamestown colonists learned?

5. Name at least three factors that led to the “Starving Time” in Jamestown in 1609–1610.