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Starvation and Cannibalism. John Rolfe started to create tobacco farms which "saved Jamestown." Because many pilgrims were starving they dug up graves to eat dead bodies or kill their wives. Squanto and Sameset helped teach the pilgrims how to use fish as fertilizer.

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