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George Percy's A Discourse On The Plantation Of Virginia

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The culture of the Jamestown colony is shaped by disease, war, and racism, however, their economy grew successful enough to support their colony social and economically. George Percy’s A Discourse on the Plantation of Virginia describes the hardships, disease, war, and misery, that they faced at Jamestown. Percy describes the disease the most he said that the diseases would leave the colonists with swelling fevers and overall misery. These challenges made it difficult to start a successful colony but after faced they make the colonists stronger. Richard Frethorne’s letter to his mother and father describes the war, disease, and work conditions on the plantations and colonies in Virginia. Earthenware vessels for Jamestown can be used to demonstrate
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