Actually, boss, historians have recently moved past the question of whether or not cannibalism actually occurred at Jamestown. Instead, the most recent scholarship deals with the question, are the sources credible? For instance, “Of the five main authors—Gates, Percy, Smith, Strachey, and the Virginia Assembly—only one was present during the winter of 1609–10, and he did not claim to witness cannibalism” (Herrmann,72). With that statistic at hand, it is hard to justify a sound answer and you should consider the bigger picture at hand in order to come up with a just conclusion about what happened in Jamestown. In order to gain power and control in into the New World, leaders needed to figure out a motive that would get settlers to honor
