The Starving Time in Jamestown

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Colonists had contrasting views on the Jamestown famine. How severe was it really?

Hand-coloured map of Virginia, 1637. Library of Congress. Public Domain.

Now famin beginneinge to Looke gastely and pale in every face, thatt notheinge was Spared to mainteyne Lyfe and to doe those things which seame incredible, as to digge upp deade corpes outt of graves and to eate them.