Chesapeake Culture in Pictures - Group 1 by Course Materials https://padlet.com/coursematerialbackup/ngo63nyt9snao03w en-us 2020-09-20 17:59:27 UTC 2023-01-27 19:03:35 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Pictureland.png INSTRUCTIONS coursematerialbackup https://padlet.com/coursematerialbackup/ngo63nyt9snao03w/wish/762216094 After reading document 3-1 and “Virginia, A Troubled Colony,” make TWO posts: 
(Be sure to put your name in the title of each post)

 ONE: Choose and post any image (that does not appear in the textbook or lecture) that you feel is a good representation of Chesapeake colonial living conditions.
  Then explain:
-         Who created it and when
-         What you believe it shows
-         How it is tied to Chesapeake culture
-         Be sure to include at least one specific piece of evidence from the documents.
 
TWO: Pick which one of your other group member's posts you think was best - make a new post next to it explaining why. Be sure to include one piece of evidence backing up your decision.
]]> 2020-09-20 17:59:27 UTC https://padlet.com/coursematerialbackup/ngo63nyt9snao03w/wish/762216094 . coursematerialbackup https://padlet.com/coursematerialbackup/ngo63nyt9snao03w/wish/762216096 2020-09-20 17:59:27 UTC https://padlet.com/coursematerialbackup/ngo63nyt9snao03w/wish/762216096 Natalie Bradley bradl32 https://padlet.com/coursematerialbackup/ngo63nyt9snao03w/wish/2453868837 - this imagine was created by NPS artist Sidney King. Although I could not find an exact date for this imagine King lived from 1906-2004. 

- I believe this image shows exhaustion, hopelessness, struggle, and is a very bleak/dark picture. All which are words that could describe the living conditions found in Jamestown. 

- From the documents and lecture we learn that the people of Chesapeake colonial times lived a hard life. They struggled for numerous reasons but one of the biggest issues facing them was their geographical location. This image by King depicts statements made directly from “Virginia, Troubled Colony, 1622”, such as “ I found the plantations generally seated upon meer salt marshes, full of infectious boggy and muddy creeks and lakes, and hearby subjected to all of those inconveniences and disease”. I picked this quote for the image because we can see the creeks the man refers too. We also see him laying down…possibly from disease.]]> 2023-01-23 20:31:42 UTC https://padlet.com/coursematerialbackup/ngo63nyt9snao03w/wish/2453868837 Abigayle Mazurek https://padlet.com/coursematerialbackup/ngo63nyt9snao03w/wish/2455013772 This painting was created by Sidney E. King after he was commissioned by the National Park Service in 1950's. The painting's title is "Burial of the Dead, 1609-1610" and depicts a victim of the 'Starving Time' being taken out of Jamestown to be buried. 

This painting represents just how underprepared colonists were to face the American winters. You can see a man dressed in armor and being armed and the colonists have created a wall for defense, but in the end they struggled greatly with being able to survive the winter with lack of food. They didn't know the ways of the land to grow crops in this climate quite yet and they suffered for it. 

In Richard Frethorne's letter to his mother and father, he goes into detail about how they hand "nothing but alittle bread, for when wee go into the boate wee have a loafe allowed to two men". He goes on to beg his father to send Cheese or butter, giving a very direct way to package it with "Coopers Chips between evrie Cheese". Starvation was a major struggle for the colonists, and in most cases, like Frethorne's, they knew they did not have enough supplies to survive, it was a miserable waiting game on whether they would find a way to survive or slowly starve. 

Many colonies went through this period of time trying to make it through the harsh winters. Only when they learned how to use the land to their advantage and learning what crops could grow before winter and what could survive the climate, could the early colonists be able to make a permanent home in America and survive.]]> 2023-01-24 17:05:25 UTC https://padlet.com/coursematerialbackup/ngo63nyt9snao03w/wish/2455013772 Carly McLaren https://padlet.com/coursematerialbackup/ngo63nyt9snao03w/wish/2456652272 I believe this image illustrates and what a lot of plantation life was in chesapeake. It shows the significance for slavery in the bay for growing and harvesting tobacco. 

In the Settlement and conflict lecture, the introduction of tobacco explaining how large of an industry it was for the colony. In this lecture,   at the 7 minutes we get an explanation of the importance to this crop as it was so valuable, people began to not only ship it back to England, but also began to use it as a currency. By 1620 they had exported 50 thousand pounds, by 1630 300 thousand pounds, by 1635 500 thousand pounds of tobacco. 
The demand for the economy of tobacco the labor in order to keep up with the demand influenced the colonies to a new import of slaves.  Because of this rise in the tobacco industry, the new Chesapeake Culture in plantations was to have slaves harvesting tobacco. 





https://www.worldhistory.org/image/13409/tobacco-plantation/

]]> 2023-01-25 19:00:53 UTC https://padlet.com/coursematerialbackup/ngo63nyt9snao03w/wish/2456652272 Natalies Bradley's Reply bradl32 https://padlet.com/coursematerialbackup/ngo63nyt9snao03w/wish/2456874709 I believe that Abigayle's post did the best job at capturing what the living conditions were like during the Chesapeake colonial days. The picture she included is a perfect representation of the following quote found in document 3-1 by Richard Freshorne, "Causeth much sicknes, as the scurvie and the bloody flix [dysentery], and divers other diseases, wch maketh the bodie very poore, and Weake,". It was a very rough time to live and I believe you captured that, great work!]]> 2023-01-25 22:44:45 UTC https://padlet.com/coursematerialbackup/ngo63nyt9snao03w/wish/2456874709 Jacob Cantu https://padlet.com/coursematerialbackup/ngo63nyt9snao03w/wish/2456974972 ~"Scene on a Tobacco Plantation - Finding Worms". This image was illustrated Edward King, and was featured in the book, The Great South. The Great South was a book that captured the historical moments of the East Coast, and the Southern United States. The illustration period was between 1848-1896. The place this image was based from is Virginia.

~This image shows the slaves working in the tobacco fields from sunrise to sundown. This piece features a pregnant African women standing, front and center, holding something small in her hands. I am not sure if it is a tobacco worm, or leaves. In this image, we can see small children being slaved away to mass produce crops for the whites. The struggles, pain, and exhaustion this image poses is phenomenal. The expression of the pregnant slave says it all. She has a quite weary look on her face that shows she is tired of what she's been through.

~This can be connected to the Chesapeake culture by showing the valuable prize in the white men's eyes. In Chesapeake culture, tobacco was at such a high demand. They abused and used the African people to do their 'dirty work' and mass produce this crop. in the times of the 1600's, tobacco was booming. From exporting this crop to different countries (Europe), and using tobacco as currency, this crop can be shown to have a hug impact on the early settlement of the East and Souther states of the U.S. While reading the article, Virginia: A Troubled Colony, I stumbled upon a quote that truly stuck out to me in terms of importance. "There having been, as it is thought, not fewer than ten thousand souls transported thither, there are not, thro' the aforementioned abuses and neglects, above two thousand of them to be found alive at this present...many of them also in a sick and desperate state." This document that showed the horrific trulls of the Virginia colony stated the abuse, the English people had on the African American's. This document painted a picture for the sickening past that was once slavery. The author explained how these slaves were ripped away from their homes, and forced to be shipped across seas, in bad health, to be saved away the rest of their lives. 

https://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/king/ill408.html

]]> 2023-01-26 01:26:31 UTC https://padlet.com/coursematerialbackup/ngo63nyt9snao03w/wish/2456974972 Jacob Cantu's reply https://padlet.com/coursematerialbackup/ngo63nyt9snao03w/wish/2456982972 I believe that Julie had the best reply due to the sources she used and quoted for this discussion post. She used the direct quotes from 3-1 and used Frethorne's letters to further her explanations. "I have nothing to Comfort me, nor ther is nothing to be gotten here but sicknes." ~Letter to Father and Mother. These words explain the harm and illness presented to Richard Frethorne as Julie explained. Overall great work on this post. You rock Julie!]]> 2023-01-26 01:37:23 UTC https://padlet.com/coursematerialbackup/ngo63nyt9snao03w/wish/2456982972 Abigayle Mazurek's Reply https://padlet.com/coursematerialbackup/ngo63nyt9snao03w/wish/2457788371 Natalie's picture and explanation I feel suits the situation of the Chesapeake and the living conditions quite well. The location and natural resources of the first settlements made for a very rough start for many colonies. Many Europeans arriving in the New World did not know how to survive in this new land and drinking from contaminated water would be the death of many. In Document 3-1, Frethorne describes "the country is such that it causeth much sickness, as the scurvie and the bloody flix, and divers other diseases". The new world was full of ways trying to kill the new settlers and the temptation to drink from unclean water sources would be high. Especially because many would be limited to drinking "loblollie" or water gruell, personally I would also attempt to drink water if all I had been ingesting "since [coming] into this land" was "pease [porridge]" and "loblollie". ]]> 2023-01-26 15:37:47 UTC https://padlet.com/coursematerialbackup/ngo63nyt9snao03w/wish/2457788371 Jordyn Yockey https://padlet.com/coursematerialbackup/ngo63nyt9snao03w/wish/2458152601 This image was created by National Park Service, Colonial National Historical Park. Found on https://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/everydaylife/jamestown-settlement-fs.html

I believe that this image shows the harsh winters that the colonists endured. You can see in the image that no matter the condition of the weather they still had to work hard to get their food and supplies the ships brought. 

It is tied to Chesapeake culture because in the document 'Virginia, A Troubled Colony, 1622' it mentions "the poor people are forced to the continual wading and wetting themselves, and that in the prime winter, when the ships commonly arrive, and thereby get such violent surfeits of cold upon cold as seldom leave them until they leave to live." I think that this picture depicts the action of the people having to deliver food in the winter, showing the teamwork it took just to bring this food back in such cold. It shows that the poor did not have an easy way of life when winter seasons appeared. ]]> 2023-01-26 19:59:08 UTC https://padlet.com/coursematerialbackup/ngo63nyt9snao03w/wish/2458152601 Jordyn Yockey https://padlet.com/coursematerialbackup/ngo63nyt9snao03w/wish/2458175447 I believe Carly's post shows the living conditions of Chesapeake the best. The image chosen shows a great representation of the use of tobacco. In the document 'Virginia, A Troubled Colony, 1622' is says "so that tobacco only was the business". It shows tobacco being used as a trading object or currency. I think she did a great job a closing a image and describing what the image means.]]> 2023-01-26 20:20:20 UTC https://padlet.com/coursematerialbackup/ngo63nyt9snao03w/wish/2458175447 Carly McLaren's Reply https://padlet.com/coursematerialbackup/ngo63nyt9snao03w/wish/2458359426 I think Jacob's image does the best job capturing the sorrow and feelings when it came to life as a slave. Working on plantations and having to go through daily life of working while also having many hills and personal struggles they had to face. 
This woman being pregnant is one of those things that working life interfered with personal. 
In the letter in 3-1 called "Letter to Father and Mother" Richard Frethorne explained one of the hills that he had to face while being a servant. He says, "as I myself at the making hereof, this is to let you understand that I your child am in a most heavy case by reason of the nature of country is such that is causeth much sickness, as the scurvy and the bloody fix, and divers other diseases, which maketh the body very poor, and weak and when we are sick there is nothing to comfort us."

I think these two things give a refreshing idea of while success was being made from the plantations, that the hard work and changes for so many slaves. Sickness, injuries, and even pregnancies was some of the most difficult things they endured while being enslaved the rest of their life. 

Great post and image Jacob, very well done! 

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