America's First Conspiracy
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- When we think of conspiracies in American history, 17th century Massachusetts is not typically what comes to mind. Nonetheless, proof of a diabolical colonial conspiracy may lie deep within the colonial muster rolls of King Philip's War.
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~REFERENCES~
[1] Dennis A. Connole. The Indians of the Nipmuck Country of Southern New England, 1630-1750: A Historical Geography (2001). McFarland & Company Publishing, Page 45-47
[2] Kyle Zelner. Rabble in Arms: Massachusetts Towns and Militiamen in King Philip’s War (2009). New York University Press, Page 71-78
[3] Increase Mather. A Brief History of the War with the Indians in New England (2013 Edition; originally published 1676). Ostara Publishing, Page 15-25
[4] Gordon Harris. “Daniel Dennison.” Historic Ipswich Blog historicipswic...
[5] George Bodge. Soldiers in King Philip’s War (1891). Printed for the Author, Page 4-5, 81-88
[6] Bodge, Page 17-21
[7] Zelner, Page 52-55
[8] Zelner, Page 109-115
[9] Zelner, Page 100-107
[10] Zelner, Page 164-166, 214-217
[11] Mather, Page 24-25
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@@hungerhighway1973 What
“Despite what you may have heard from people trying to sell you something. . .”
People trying to sell me what, never have I heard anything from anyone trying to sell me anything stating the contrary.
@@toubi4316 Pretty common really. Anything from Recruitment posters talking about the pride of serving your country and the honor of the task, to when politicians talk about how they're "Securing Democracy" and other such lofty sounding phrases as they declare (or not even declare just do it) war.
If someone tells you war *involves* a lot of picnics, though, that's real. You go to war, expect to have at least a few outdoor meals.
@@hitomisalazar4073 it's still an honor to serve your country
Seeing Atun-Shei doing a video on King Philip’s War is like bumping into an old friend you haven’t seen for ages. Just feels right, ya know?
Was thinking the same thing but you expressed it better than I would have.
It’s a Puritan version of macknamaras 100000
@@cajunguy6502 Projecting much?
Said it perfectly my man
@@lurkenvoncurken518congratulations, you found the joke! Want a cookie?
This is amazingly timed. I’m just finishing up my history thesis on the conflict between Narragansett sachem Miantonomo and Mohegan sachem Uncas right after the Pequot war. It’s an amazingly fascinating time period that doesn’t get nearly enough attention. Cheers to you, Atun-Shei!
This man is an acedemic historian by day and makes minecraft server roleplay history videos by night, actual legend
I see you're a man of culture
I would be very interested in reading your thesis. I live in RI and have been to most of the Pequot/KP war sites. And you are correct; a time that recieves little/no attention from history
You'd think this war would be exhaustively covered by historians already, but the new discoveries presented in "Our Beloved Kin" seem to have proven that wrong...
@@yrobtsvt there was no political incentive to keep note of this particular history
History is written by the winners, but they also choose the history that doesn't get written
Having family who were on the mayflower went from being a fun little factoid to being like having family who left Germany in 1946 incredibly fast.
I mean literally everyone who came to America from Europe to some extent took part in what would later be Manifest Destiny. Either you came to settle the frontier or you helped fuel other's expansion.
Turns out that the old Puritan / Biblical adage, "...there is none righteous. No, not one..." Has practical application...
to quote a wise man "I'm not responsible for my ancestors atrocities, but I am responsiable if I cover up or hide the atrocities they do." I find it a comforoting and good quote when dealing with my ancestors.
It's just that we know about those people. I am sure you would find warcrimes in most ancestrys
@@funnseeker8494 you are responsible if you enjoy the fruits of their theft though.
As someone born and raised from 400 years of poor working class rural Massachusetts stock, this video deeply hits home.
We always felt like the rich big city folks treated us "Swampyankees" like trash, and that we were either disposable, or in the way of their grand plans. The information in this video proves this sentiment has been the case for a very very long time.
Atun Shei has been making" war is hell" type videos since fixing gettysburg but the real morning reville is having all these youtubers upload all at the same time.
I’m a huge fan of your “Checkmate Lincolnites” series and admittedly when I clicked on this video, I didn’t really expect to watch more than a minute or two. But there is something about the way you tell stories that just enthralls and entrances. Sure enough I came to the end of the video and thought to myself “Oh that’s all? I could have listened for another hour!”
🙂👍🏼
The best part about Atun Shei uploads is that you always learn something that you knew absolutely god damned nothing about before
12:30 "that guy's dripping too hard! force him to go to war!"
0:53 and the CIA, Making Atun Shei Films magically disappear after mentioning everything the CIA did!
Also I agree, I hate dust covers, they suck and make the book look less cool
I love the work you have done King Phillips War. I never heard of it prior to your materials and i feel like it adds a lot of context to the colonial narrative that gets left out of standard education.
Love the idea of this collab. can't wait to check out some other cool history videos! To the folks who are just finding this channel now, stick around, they're really almost all at least this good!
Can confirm. Recommend his other videos on King Philip's War for more on this period, the VVitchfinder General, his ongoing Leif Erikson Day video series, and especially the Checkmate Lincolnites series.
Awesome video. Growing up on the Great Plains, King Phillip’s war was just a blip in history texts, so it’s cool to learn about this. Plus this shows nothing changes. It seems as if throughout American history we’ve more or less drafted people who don’t want to fight into the war and it’s hard in this one not to see parallels with America home front during the Vietnam War.
One last aside too. It makes sense as they needed cattle for beef and leather but I always forget New England would have had a significant cattle industry for the time. This is much later but in the ranching areas of Nebraska, Wyoming and the Dakotas, a number of the first ranchers were part of the New England and mid-Atlantic upper crust. While they didn’t quite take the full on religious aspect with them, it’s interesting how in a way they continued on this tradition and basically continued with such commercial ventures, though by the 1880s it was the high plains and not the woods of New England.
I moved to MA from Israel in the middle of fourth grade, and I've learned more in passing from some of your random videos about the history of this State than I did from 8 years of schooling.
American Education is meant to indoctrinate us, not educate us.
Literally just recommended your channel to somebody. This must be my reward
I'm Brazilian, so it is not "my history", but I do love the way people like Atun-shei and Knowing Better can make American History extremely interesting, be it in the more commonly known events or the more specific ones.
It's like BBC documentaries on British History, they have a knack for creating narratives and making us see the humanity in other people (and peoples).
I wish historians here in Brazil did the same!
Our historians tend to be TERRIBLY academic and dry (oh, boy, SO MUCH repetition, such impersonal tones and long winded phrases!) and most "documentaries" are either terribly nationalistic, myopic and sugar coated or carry pretty outdated information (in the year of our lord 2021, a Brazilian "educational" show stated that Medieval peasants didn't bathe and that women in Europe were always fainting during the 19th Century because it is impossible to breath while wearing a corset, which are misconceptions that had been cleared out since what, the 1980s?).
😂can’t even get accurate history in brazil. LOL.
Watching your videos feels like having a refreshing conversation about history with a friend.
Something I learned recently, thanks to my Uncle who has devoted 20+ years to compiling my family's ancestry, is I have not one but three ancestors who arrived aboard the Mayflower.
As an Andover native, it was fascinating to hear the snippet on the town’s geographic and social divides in the context of conscription.
Honestly, I’m happy that I am now able to learn about the King Philips War at a early age instead of later.
Eastern CT native here. Fascinating video on this time period as always.
Most Americans have no clue about the period from Plymouth Rock to the Revolution, the era that shaped what was to come. Thank you very much for your attention to this oft overlooked history. Great, great video.
BTW, another great story is how George Burroughs, a minister, ran afoul of the powerful Putnam family of Salem (Danvers now) and ended up hung as a witch despite being under the protection of the Wheelwright family of Wells, Maine. Dirty Deeds done dirt cheap.
The fact that you toss the dust covers instantly made me subscribe.
Ooh, King Philips War. Always interested in this war.
Hmmm, a late 17th century Massachusetts phenomenon disproportionately targeting the lower stratum of society, those who were poor and/or social outsiders? All of which directly or implicitly reinforced social norms and expectations?
This gives quite a bit of context to the Salem Witch Trials fifteen years later….
I am a descendant of one of the English Colonists killed in this conflict. As I also have Iroquois blood on the same side of my family, the entire slaughter seems pointless to me. I feel for all involved, and I take both perspectives into account every time I hear about the “Indian Wars”.
I'm in a similar situation. Sioux on my mom's side, meanwhile one of my dad's ancestors was like, the best doctor in the whole colony around the time of King Philip's War.
Are you a US man?If so,the slaughter seems pointless to you because you reap the benefits of these wars of expansion.I'm pretty sure if you were an almost poor man that had just arrived from England,you wouldn't mind ''dispatching'' some natives to make your farm on their land.
@@KermitTheGamer21 found out my 1st cousin is Benjamin Church
Good way to end the year with a atun shei films doing a video on king Philip’s war and collab no less
I’m from northeastern ct and it’s always so crazy watching videos when they mention towns i grew up near/go to often lol
Drafting "undesirables" for military service and having Officers in their positions due to societal status was pretty common at the time. And still occurs today, albeit to a lesser extent.
RE: Dust covers. I couldn't agree more. The way I see it, dust covers are packaging and leaving them on makes about as much sense as wearing clothes with all the tags still attached.
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this; the detailed impressment records really add to the story!
Im a simple man. I see Atun, I click like
The impressement element apears highly topical given what is going on in Russia at the moment. As always, a well researched and highly informative post.
Atun-Shei have you read the new novel by Robert Harris set in Puritan New England? It’s called Act of oblivion. It came out this year. I think you might enjoy it. It deals with two regicides who escape England after the restoration and have to hide among the puritans of New England (king Philip’s war is even mentioned).
Looking forward to the Puritan-era cover of Credence Clearwater Revival's "fortunate son"
fome lads are borne, made to raife the flag
I wargame the battles of King Philip's War, and when I'm running large, convention events to introduce and teach the game, I try to get messages like this in on the ground. The idea that there are so rarely "good guys" in a conflict, and that ultimately, war is hard to differentiate from mass murder. Last year, we gamed 'The Great Swamp Fight'. With civilian miniatures on the table, and the English having the scenario goal of burning the town and killing Metacom, who was "hiding randomly among the civilians."
Yes gaming is fun. Yes we drank beer and enjoyed trash-talking, bad pantomime, and friendly joking. But there's a sobering moment when you realize that yes, this really happened, and not to tiny leaden soldiers, but to flesh and blood people, with hopes and dreams and lives ahead of them.
The later part of this video almost sounds like a history of the Draft during the Civil and Vietnam Wars. It is kind of startling how similar they seem on face value
The NIMBY's are still going VERY strong in Ipswich 363 years on. A current local debate regards the construction of new housing on Rt 133.
Yeaaasss... feed me more of that sweet, sweet 17th century colonial American history numnumnumnum.
But seriously, please give us more of these stories from the early colonial period, everything that I learned in school about this period can be summed up with Saint Augustin, Jamestown, Plymouth Rock, first Thanksgiving, and then we go straight to the Stamp Act with nothing in-between.
I recently read Peter Guardino's "The Dead March" about the Mexican-American War with a focus on the perspectives of the common people (on both sides!). He spends considerable time covering how the Mexican Regular forces were recruited through conscription, and it's basically the same as you describe: local leaders filled quotas by selecting the "undesirables" of the community. So I wonder if this practice was fairly common throughout history. The Dead March is a good read if your interested in the subject, and the author goes into the reasons why they chose such people -- for example the Mexican economy was so poor, that the government couldn't afford to pay, or even feed, its soldiers regularly, and there was basically no way a soldier could support a family.
Anyway, another great video. Keep up the good work!
NO! War is war and Hell is Hell. One is the worst experience you'll ever endure, the other is Hell.
Yup, In Defense of Puritanism is indeed an outstanding documentary, in terms of information, storytelling as well as style. This one's interesting as well, I've absolutely grown to love this channel.
Thank you for this. War is so glorified. The survivors, including civilians, often have challenges. My late mother lived through the WWII bombings in England. When we were bombing Iraq (shock and awe) and the news was full of videos of a city aflame, sirens and explosions, she called me in tears. All her nightmares had come back from those years. I also remember all the Vietnam veterans coming back to our working class neighborhood looking shell shocked. They were changed.
Nice to see someone I respect who also shares my distaste for dust covers.
We learned a little about kings Phillips war in 7th grade. But I’m from the area so it’s extremely local history that’s simple taught like King Phillip stood on top of Mount Watchusetts and watched all the towns burn.
As someone who lives in Connecticut, pretty close to Mystic, your videos have taught a whole lot. Of course we are taught about it in schools, but nowhere near the eloquency or style of yours.
This video has whetted my apetite yet further for The Sudbury Devil.
Sprigfield and the CT River Valley! You're talking about me. Fun fact: Enfield and Suffield CT were originally part of MA and were part of the Sprigfield settlement. Enfield in particular was settled by people from Salem.
Rev. Jonathan Edwards preached the Sermon "Sinners at the Hands of an Angry God' at the Enfield Meeting House in 1741.
Damn. That closing was cold as ice. Shivers.
I swear if the CIA was behind King Phillip's War, I will not be suprised
lol
Only if they had a time machine.
If you ever read this, would you be fine with me referencing your video? I'm doing a high school research paper and I want to discuss this very topic and your video is so educational, I hope you would be okay with it.
You should make a new playlist called “Weirods in American history,” so this and the Ignatius Donnelly one have a home
I also always throw away dust covers. Solidarity.
Absolutely excellent video!
Sorry this went over my head! Il have to rewatch it again 😅
"the ugly side of military history"
Or, as it is also known, military history.
Outstanding as always. Thank you so much!
Philbrick’s “ Mayflower” is your best perspective on the embryonic colonial New England.
Much more understandable than this gent’s presentation.
Love your content. You don't have anywhere near the sub's you deserve.
you officially peaked my interested in this time period
I honestly thought you were about to fully quote the lyrics to "Out In the Fields" at the end there.
You're right. Fuck dust covers.
I’m glad someone else throws away their book covers, I can’t stand them but I feel bad so I have a drawer full of covers I can’t throw away. I needed to hear that
Great video!
Won’t have time to watch this for a couple hours because hanging out with extend family and drunk but godbless you and your fun content
Thank goodness I'm not the only one that gets rid of dust covers!
Straight scholarly presentation, good-man.
Oh I recognize this one: the wealthy and powerful use their power to solidify their position and punish anyone who dares be even slightly deviant
Never heard that before...
So classism and elitism have always been very popular in the US. Sadly I'm not surprised.
I live in Uxbridge right next to mendon Ws across the board
My great- so on- grandfather, was John Endicott. The first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Great History
The only thing that could make this conspiracy better is…
A U G M E N T E D V I S I O N
Yeah killing each other in bulk isn't the healthiest pastime but it's clearly our favorite.
The only disappointing thing about this channel is that he doesn't have subtitles... it's just auto generated nonsense
It could very well be that lower cast people (ie 'undesirable') volunteer to go to war more often. We see this in modern times as well. I doubt the leaders chose every individual person that went.
Well done Atun Shei!
I was just thinking about the king Philips war earlier and look what came out
"It ain't me. It ain't meee. I ain't no puritan's son."🎼
This is all very heart warming. Thank you.
Atun can we get a link where to find "Rabble in Arms" if we would like to read it for ourselves?
A Rabble in Arms: Massachusetts Towns and Militiamen during King Philip’s War (Warfare and Culture Book 5)
Part of: Warfare and Culture (10 books) | by Kyle F. Zelner | Apr 1, 2009
4.7 out of 5 stars 15
Kindle $16.50
Hardcover $82.01
That ending is perfect.
Mr. Atun-Shei Films, if you knew as much about Early Modern English as you seem to based off of your Sudbury Devil movie, you'd know that it would be Ceaſe Thy Inveſtigations, not Ceaſe Thy Inveſtigationſ.
Interesting video, God bless.
I wonder if you would consider doing a video on the most culturally impactful conspiracy theory in American history. The "slave power" conspiracy theory which had a lot of truth too. Maybe compare it to the southern "servile insurrection" nonsense
This video is pretty good. However, it doesn’t surprise me that men of power (the Puritan Patriarchs) used said power to elevate their status in times of war, and again use said power to have other people do the actual fighting. Not to mention that the people fighting are people the men in power consider ‘undesirable’.
It actually reminds me of a quote by Niko Bellic from GTA lV. “War is just the young and stupid killing each other because the old and bitter tell them to.”
Heavily appreciated the acknowledgement of the cias terrorism.
Thank you, great video! 🙏🙏
The Gulf of Tonkin was a fun one
I find it really weird that I am happy that Beverly was mentioned
glad to see things havent changed regarding drafts here in america
Hi, when and where will The Sudbury Devil be avalable
Conspiracy Theories are always intresting
But Conspiracies are even more intresting
"And no small religious groups EVER conspired again"
I refuse to believe that this isn’t a response video to Michael Knowles’s take on the founding of our country.
There are 2 parts of war that never change; that everyone is subject to the whims of Fate and the whims of men.
Kind of reminds you of Russia’s mobilization efforts. Where they draw most heavily from Russia’s ethnic minorities in impoverished regions.
That ain't me, that ain't me. I ain't no millionaire's son, son.
"...got in a little hometown jam, so they put a rifle in my hands..." -Bruce Springsteen, Born in the USA. Seems like very little ever changes.
Ipswich? Isnt that a town full of fish people?
Dust covers are definitely a pain in the ass.😅