"I your child am in a most heavy case by
reason of the country, [which] is such that it
causes much sickness, (such] as the scurvy
and the bloody flux and diverse other
diseases, which makes the body very poor
and weak.”
– Richard Frethorne, Jamestown, 1623
What does this southern colonist blame for the
widespread sickness in his colony?
O The colonists brought the diseases with
them.
o The country itself causes the sickness.
0 The colonists are too weak and poor to resist
the diseases