Useful Links
History of King Philip’s War: talks about the causes of the war and major battles
historyofmassachusetts.org/what-was-king-philips-war/
Discusses the implications of the war for Native Americans who surrendered.
Colonial enslavement of Native Americans included those who surrendered, too. A study by Brown University historian finds that Native Americans who surrendered during King Philip’s War were sold into slavery, with long-lasting effects.
www.brown.edu/news/2017-02-15/enslavement
"Why Shall Wee Have Peace to Bee Made Slaves”: Indian Surrenderers During and After King Philip’s War
This article is an investigation of the treatment of surrenderers in King Philip’s War (1675–76) in New England, particularly with regard to enslavement. Fear of slavery was a tangible, deep concern for most New England natives involved in the war. Threats of enslavement influenced the involvement of native individuals and groups, driving some into deeper “rebellion” and others to surrender. Each colony had differing policies for surrendering natives, but generally the hundreds of surrenderers received far worse treatment than they expected, facing execution, overseas enslavement, local limited-term enslavement, and forced relocation. Perhaps the most fascinating element of this saga is the degree to which English-allied native leaders worked to influence the treatment of surrenderers, helping them to escape to New York, harboring runaways, and in other ways trying to keep natives out of English households
read.dukeupress.edu/ethnohistory/article-abstract/64/1/91/63354/Why-Shall-Wee-Have-Peace-to-Bee-Made-Slaves-Indian?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Primary Sources
The following is a page of links to documents on Metacom’s War (also called King Philip’s War), 1675-1676
terrybouton.wordpress.com/documents-metacoms-war/ Excerpts from a narrative of the Indian Wars by Charles Henry Lincoln focusing on King Philip’s War in 1675-6. dp.la/primary-source-sets/cross-cultural-colonial-conflicts/sources/625 From Benjamin Church's account of the war as written by his son Thomas in 1716: www.massmoments.org/# |