On the the myth of the Noble Savage!
"In the dead of winter on the American frontier, Mohawk, Abenaki, and Pennacook warriors, climbing snowdrifts, slipped over a protective palisade surrounding the tiny English colonial settlement of Deerfield ...
James Swanson’s new book, The Deerfield Massacre, brings to life the English frontier colonies. Swanson creates a terrifying retelling of the raid and explores the complicated history following the attack, which occurred 320 years ago, on February 29, 1704.
James Swanson’s new book, The Deerfield Massacre, brings to life the English frontier colonies. Swanson creates a terrifying retelling of the raid and explores the complicated history following the attack, which occurred 320 years ago, on February 29, 1704.
Forty-seven inhabitants of Deerfield, mostly children, lost their lives in the raid. Another 112 people were taken captive. Half of those hostages were children. The prize captives were force-marched three hundred miles to Quebec in the dead of winter. Those who could not keep up were executed by club or tomahawk, including Eunice Williams. Eighty-nine survived the march. Of the survivors, many, like Williams’s own daughter, chose to stay among the Iroquois to marry and live as Indians, losing their English language and religion. ..."
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