1. “The Starving Time” by Marianne Bates

2. What was “The Starving Time”? Jamestown — 1608-1610 Limited food supply Stolen livestock Death

3. What happened? Late crop planting Marshy swamp location Powhatan Native Americans Disease Jamestown abandoned

4. Primary Source “Nay, so great was our famine, that a Salvage we slew and buried,...

5. “…the poorer sort tooke him up againe and eat him; and so did divers one another boyled and stewed with roots and herbs..

6. “This was that time, which still to this day [1624] we called the starving time.” --Captain John Smith

7. Cause and Effect There was not enough food in Jamestown. The number of colonists fell from 200 to 38 in the winter of 1607.

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