History Problem
You will be reading a chapter from After the Fact called, Serving Time in Virginia. It focuses on the very high mortality rate in early Virginia.
In this chapter the authors of the book want to address: what are the challenges that historians' face when working with documents? What is the potential problem with John Smith's Autobiography? What challenge does the short government proclamation about planting corn and not tobacco present?
So first you need to read the chapter, and then answer the following 3 questions:
• What experiences did John Smith write about? How much veracity is there to what he recorded about his experiences?
• Who was Sir Edwin Sandys, and how did his policies and reforms impact the colony?
• Why was labor critical to the boom economy, and in what ways did planters acquire that labor? What kinds of abuses did the labor system spawn?
The response must include a reference list. Using Times New Roman 12 pnt font, double-space, one-inch margins, and APA style of writing and citations.