Summary Of Our Plantation Is Very Weak By Ricard Farethorne
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In the reading of “Our Plantation is very weak”: Experiences of an indentured servant in Virginia, 1623 by Ricard Farethorne explains his first had experience of the hardships of being an indentured servant in the colony of Jamestown only after three months.
The most depressing part of his life is the fact that his parents sent him away to the New World for reasons unknown. As he writes this heart wrenching letter to his parents desperately pleading for them to help him because his life depends on it. All around him is death and disease he know is help isn’t sent soon enough he will die. Unless his parents either buy him out of sent him something to profit off because he has nothing.
His attitude toward the colonist that is left is very insubstantial