A nonfiction account of how the colonists enslaved the Indians, laying the foundation for the enslavement of millions of Black people.
In what is now the eastern and southern United States and Canada, the colonists used enslavement as a weapon of war in an effort to destroy the Indian nations and obtain the land for their own use. The practice began before Columbus kidnapped Indians to take to Spain and continued until about the end of the Revolutionary War. The English, Dutch, French, and Spanish colonists all employed enslavement of Indians as a policy.
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Regarding King Philip's War of 1675-76:
"Captain Benjamin Church, who had been a good friend to the Indians until the outbreak of the war, marched to the aid of Dartmouth but arrived too late to save it. Seeking safety in the turmoil, 160 of the Dartmouth Tribe who were part of the Wampanoag Federation but who were not involved in the war, surrendered themselves to Church, who promised them kind treatment. He sent them to Plymouth, but much to his disgust, the authorities disregarded his promise and sold the Indians into slavery."
This is the story of the author’s great great grandparents, Edward Lewis and Sarah Crosby, who were convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land in the 1840s. It is told from the perspective of a detective agency searching for what happened to Edward, w
325 letters my father wrote to my mother during his time in World War II.
Woven together in a timeline of events of three of his brothers, 5 brothers-in-law, and one cousin, all 10 of them were in WWII at the same time.
