It’s All About Perspective Two men, Richard Frethorne and Anthony Johnson, arrived to the early seventeenth-century English colonies in North America right around the same time. Although the two men were there for different reasons, both of them had similar conditions and setbacks to live with. In “Retracing the Past: Readings in the History of the American People” written by Gary B. Nash and Ronald Schultz, there is a letter from a white indentured servant named Richard Frethorne to his family titled, “Richard Frethorne’s Letter Home (1623)”. In the letter, Frethorne described the new world and his working conditions to his family back in England; and was disappointed in what he had discovered. Another reading, “Anthony Johnson: Patriarch on Pungoteague Creek”, written by T.H. Breen and Stephen Innes, is included in Retracing the Past: History of the American People. The story of Anthony Johnson is about the young black slave who ended up being equal to the white man in society. Richard Frethorne and Anthony Johnson both lived under similar conditions regarding the land and the provisions that were available. However, Anthony Johnson was a stronger man and had a better perspective than Richard Frethorne. Indentured servants were not quite slaves back in the seventeenth-century. Frethorne and his fellow indentured servants migrated to Virginia and settled in the Chesapeake colony. They agreed to work for a particular amount of time in exchange for land or freedom in the new country. However, when they arrived to Virginia and started their lives as the indentured servants they were, they started questioning whether it was all worth it. The labor was harder than they expected, the food was scarce, and their was hardly enough clothing to go around. Sicknesses were floating around and infecting everyone without much, if any, medicine to help those in need. The