Compare And Contrast Powhatan And Chesapeake Bay Settlers

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In December 1606, 144 Englishmen road the ships Susan Constant, Discovery, and Godspeed toward Virginia. After a couple of weeks went by, on April 26, 1607, they arrived in Chesapeake Bay. When the English settlers arrived there, they came across a small land that was Powhatan’s territory and they quickly built a fort as protection. However, health threats were far more ruthless than their apprehension towards the Native Americans. Diseases and starvation quickly took over them and many Englishmen would spend long dreadful nights laying in their sickness. For a glimpse of how bitter their living conditions were, George Percy, the governor of the Virginia Company wrote, “and now famine beginning to look ghastly and pale in every face that nothing …show more content…
.]” (Jamestown Document, 6). People would desperately search for any living animal such as horses, snakes, mices, dogs, etc and devour all of them for food. Also, an indentured servant wrote a letter back home to her parents, telling them how “I have nothing to comfort me, nor is there nothing to be gotten here but sickness and death, except [in the event] that one had money to lay out in some things for profit” (Jamestown Document, 7). However, Powhatan and his people have been watching them from a distance and decided to offer them food in exchange for other goods. For a long time, English people would consider corn as only what uncivilized Indians eat and was always against it. However, the English people would soon change their perspectives when they soon relied heavily on corn. Corn kept the settlers full and provided a stock full of food for the original settlers and the newcomers. But the peace between the two did not last forever, Powhatan and his people kept a distance from the settlers. The settlers were not afraid to use their weapons to enforce proper Native American behavior towards them. And when the Indians decided to stop bartering corn with them, the English people stole their corn and invaded their villages.
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