timber and other commodities to ship back to London. But Jamestown proved to be neither paradise nor gold mine. In the heat of that first summer at the mosquito-infested settlement, 46 of the ...

Twelve years earlier, in 1607, three ships carrying about 100 English colonists ... By the spring of 1610, only sixty colonists of the original nine hundred were still alive.

Why is Jamestown, Virginia, listed on the National Trust’s list of the most endangered historic places United States?

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A: The first people who come to Jamestown from Africa in a sense come as slaves. We're not sure whether they had been captured off a slave ship in the Caribbean or whether they'd been transported ...