"Soldiers sent groups of captured Pequot to Boston and other cities for distribution, while claiming particular captured people as their own.” SOURCE: Rebecca Onion, in America’s Other Original Sin for Slate
#PequotMassacre
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
#IndigenousGenocide
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“During the Pequot War, which was initially instigated by struggles over trade & land among the Europeans, the Pequot & rival tribes; colonists explicitly named the procurement of captives as 1 of their goals." SOURCE: Rebecca Onion, in America’s Other Original Sin for Slate
#PequotMassacre
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#OTD in History 1637
May 26: #PequotMassacre
Also Known As: The #MysticMassacre.
Facts: During a 3-yr war started by the Puritans (English Protestants) to seize the tribe’s land, 500 Pequot villagers (including children) were slaughtered by Puritans in Mystic, Connecticut.
#AmericanHistory
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