A.) The white "Christian" slavers were brutal and barbaric.
Answer:
Answer C:
While the colony commanders were generally optimistic, as their task was to send the settler groups and hope for the best, the settlers had many other issues.
Despite the beauty and abundance of this new land, its wild and unknown aspects (hostile natives, new diseases, wild beasts) inspired both hope and fear to the settlers.
And the excerpt, from the begging, explores these feelings making the questions that the settlers might have asked themselves when entering Virginia.
Explanation:
He depicts his father's carefree, dismissive behavior.
