In this image, the Dutch sailors, who have captured the blacks from a Spanish ship, are negotiating a trade with the Jamestown settlers for food. No record of the ship's name was made at the time.

Soon after constructing the fort at Jamestown, two hundred Powhatan ... But even with their neighbors' help, over 400 settlers would die over the winter of 1609-1610. In the spring of 1610 ...

Two decades before Jamestown, settlers arrived in what is now North Carolina. What happened to them is a mystery, but there are some clues. Excavations at the site of a Native American town on ...

Despite the help, more continued to die from disease. Newport was shocked when he returned to Jamestown in 1608 and found only 38 settlers remaining. To add to the struggles, he had brought 100 ...