The Transformation of Seventeenth Century Colonial Virginia
The Transformation of Seventeenth Century Colonial Virginia
By: Ben Kurkowski
There was a huge transformation from the start to the end of the seventeenth century in England’s Virginia colony. The settlers in England’s Virginia colony faced a number of hardships, eventually the colony’s economy would prosper through the use of tobacco, but tobacco helped the social change of the colony by turning to indentured servants and slaves to do work on the labor-intensive tobacco plantations. From the start of the Virginia colony, the settlers had many hardships. One of the hardships was the war with the indians. A quote from Susan Kingsbury, ed., The Records of the Virginia Company of London, “[We] live in fear of the enemy every hour… we are but 32 to fight against 3000… and when the rogues overcame this place [earlier] they slew 80 persons.” This letter shows how some indians killed the settlers from the start of the Virginia Colony. The indians were very hard to deal with and still try to start and build their colony. Through the contact with the indians and the new world, the settlers got another hardship brought upon them and that as disease. A second quote from Kingsbury,, “This is to let you understand that [this] country … causeth much sickness, [including] the scurvy and [dysentery] and diverse other diseases, which make the body poor and weak.” The diseases put forth upon the settlers made many sick and to die. The worst part about the diseases is that the people who had them were to sick to work and help the colony. The settlers who weren’t sick had to work even harder to try to keep their sick family or friends alive. Many people died from disease, but not as much as the settlers died of the last hardship which was famine. Another quote Kingsbury “A mouthful of bread … must serve four men”. Due to famine, many of the settlers died of starvation. After all of these hardships, Virginia lived on. The colony of Virginia, after those hardships, soon
By: Ben Kurkowski
There was a huge transformation from the start to the end of the seventeenth century in England’s Virginia colony. The settlers in England’s Virginia colony faced a number of hardships, eventually the colony’s economy would prosper through the use of tobacco, but tobacco helped the social change of the colony by turning to indentured servants and slaves to do work on the labor-intensive tobacco plantations. From the start of the Virginia colony, the settlers had many hardships. One of the hardships was the war with the indians. A quote from Susan Kingsbury, ed., The Records of the Virginia Company of London, “[We] live in fear of the enemy every hour… we are but 32 to fight against 3000… and when the rogues overcame this place [earlier] they slew 80 persons.” This letter shows how some indians killed the settlers from the start of the Virginia Colony. The indians were very hard to deal with and still try to start and build their colony. Through the contact with the indians and the new world, the settlers got another hardship brought upon them and that as disease. A second quote from Kingsbury,, “This is to let you understand that [this] country … causeth much sickness, [including] the scurvy and [dysentery] and diverse other diseases, which make the body poor and weak.” The diseases put forth upon the settlers made many sick and to die. The worst part about the diseases is that the people who had them were to sick to work and help the colony. The settlers who weren’t sick had to work even harder to try to keep their sick family or friends alive. Many people died from disease, but not as much as the settlers died of the last hardship which was famine. Another quote Kingsbury “A mouthful of bread … must serve four men”. Due to famine, many of the settlers died of starvation. After all of these hardships, Virginia lived on. The colony of Virginia, after those hardships, soon