Humanities Homework Help

When
we read historical primary sources, we begin our analysis by asking
questions about them. We want to know basic things like: Who is writing
it? Who are they writing to? Why are they writing it? What goals do
they hope to achieve from it? Can we trust what they say, or do we have
reason to be skeptical? And so on. Without asking questions like
these, we cannot understand the historical significance of such
documents, nor can we make use of them to understand the bigger picture
of the historical era in which the documents were created.

With this in mind:

1) Come up with two historical questions we should ask of Richard
Frethorne’s letters to his parents to help us make good historical use
of them.

2) Explain two important things we can learn about early Virginia
based on Richard Frethorne’s letters to his parents. (Not just what we
can learn about Frethorne himself, but about larger issues in Virginia
at the time.)