James W. Loewen Quote
New England, would face no real Indian challenge. Indeed, the plague helped prompt the legendarily warm reception Plymouth enjoyed from the Wampanoags. Massasoit, the Wampanoag leader, was eager to ally with the Pilgrims because the plague had so weakened his villages that he feared the Narragansetts to the west.28 When a land conflict did develop between new settlers and old at Saugus in 1631, God ended the controversy by sending the small pox amongst the Indians, in the words of the Puritan minister Increase Mather. Whole towns of them were swept away, in some of them not so much as one Soul escaping the Destruction. 29 By the time the Native populations of New England had replenished themselves to some degree, it was too late to
New England, would face no real Indian challenge. Indeed, the plague helped prompt the legendarily warm reception Plymouth enjoyed from the Wampanoags. Massasoit, the Wampanoag leader, was eager to ally with the Pilgrims because the plague had so weakened his villages that he feared the Narragansetts to the west.28 When a land conflict did develop between new settlers and old at Saugus in 1631, God ended the controversy by sending the small pox amongst the Indians, in the words of the Puritan minister Increase Mather. Whole towns of them were swept away, in some of them not so much as one Soul escaping the Destruction. 29 By the time the Native populations of New England had replenished themselves to some degree, it was too late to
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