American History

Did you read this part from your link?

"But the first brutal winter was not good for business, and nearly half the colonists died."

Truly. They were dead, but were they "deadbeats"?

In my family, Elizabeth Tilley (a girl of about thirteen years old) was orphaned that first winter in the New World. She was taken into the Carver household, where she worked to care for the ill and to feed and care for the others. Eventually she married John Howland, who was an indentured manservant to Carver. They had children, and the work of the family was to establish a food-raising farm and to hunt and process fur-bearing animals whose pelts were sent to England.

What the hell do you know about people struggling so for survival that allows you to call them deadbeats?