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      “Why Shall Wee Have Peace to Bee Made Slaves”: Indian Surrenderers During and After King Philip’s War

      Ethnohistory
      Duke University Press

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          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.

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                Journal
                Ethnohistory
                Duke University Press
                0014-1801
                1527-5477
                January 01 2017
                January 01 2017
                : 64
                : 1
                : 91-114
                Article
                10.1215/00141801-3688391
                29081535
                c0de9864-5ff2-47a8-8c33-8e9bc0f98894
                © 2017
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