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.

But Jamestown proved to be neither paradise nor gold mine. In the heat of that first summer at the mosquito-infested settlement, 46 of the colonists died of fever, starvation or Indian arrows.

Indentured servants first arrived in America in the decade following the settlement of Jamestown by the Virginia Company in 1607. The idea of indentured servitude was born of a need for cheap labor.

Virginia’s Historic Triangle of Jamestown, Williamsburg ... life during the years it was the capital of the Virginia Colony (1699- 1780). Picture horse-drawn carriages on a 23-mile-long ...

Williamsburg was the capital of the colony of Virginia, the most influential American colony, from 1699 to 1780. Jamestown predates Williamsburg. It was where the first English settlement was ...