Adventures in Jamestown
Adventures in Jamestown by Nancy LeSourd is part of the “Liberty Letters” series where fictional letters between two girls reveal history as readers may not have known it before. In Jamestown , we witness 17th century colonial and British life through the friendship letters of Elizabeth (a young Englishwoman who greatly desires education, although she is not allowed it) and Abigail (who is seeking adventure in the New World with her parents). But within months of arriving in America, Abigail’s parents die; her mother starves because the Indians won’t let the settlers out of Jamestown to seek food, and her father is killed with an arrow because he dares to sneak out of Jamestown in search of food for his family. Abigail, starving and mourning, wants nothing more than to go back to England and never see the New World - and the Indians, - again. Just when she thinks rescue has come and she can return to her friend Elizabeth, God tugs at her heart. Maybe she should stay in the New World a little longer, she thinks. She begins helping Reverand Alexander Whitaker - who in turn has recently been sent the Indian princess Pocohontas, who’s been kidnapped by the settlers in hopes of striking a deal with her father, the Chief of the local Indian tribe. Whitaker and the other settlers treat Pocohontas with great respect and immedietly begin teaching her about English ways - and the English God. Abigail is the only one who seems to dislike Pocohontas. How can she be friends with the princess who was once known for helping the English, yet allowed Abigail’s parents to die?
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