Preview | Jamestown’s Dark Winter
Preview: Season 14 Episode 4 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Uncoverr the truth about the first permanent English colony in the New World
Jamestown, Virginia. The site of the first permanent English colony the Americas settled in 1607 and the home of the archaeological site “Historic Jamestowne” today. It has long been speculated that the harsh conditions faced by the colonists during the winter of 1609, often referred to as the “starving time,” might have made them desperate enough to participate in the unthinkable.
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Preview | Jamestown’s Dark Winter
Preview: Season 14 Episode 4 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Jamestown, Virginia. The site of the first permanent English colony the Americas settled in 1607 and the home of the archaeological site “Historic Jamestowne” today. It has long been speculated that the harsh conditions faced by the colonists during the winter of 1609, often referred to as the “starving time,” might have made them desperate enough to participate in the unthinkable.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- [Narrator] On "Secrets of the Dead"... A young girl travels to the new world.
But she finds a colony in disarray.
- [man] Jamestown's history is pretty much a colossal failure.
- The monster of hunger is loose.
- [Narrator] Was she the victim of a terrible fate?
- Colonists were forced to do those things that nature most abhors.
- [Narrator] "Jamestown's Dark Winter," on "Secrets of the Dead."
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Dark rumors surrounding Jamestown
Clip: S14 Ep4 | 3m 29s | Could the marks of the bones be evidence of cannibalism? (3m 29s)
The struggles of Jamestown in the early 1600s
Clip: S14 Ep4 | 3m 1s | In the summer of 1609, a fleet of English ships sails across the Atlantic for Jamestown. (3m 1s)
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