When you learn about how brutal the Dutch settlers were to the Indians and how brutal the Indian retaliations, and also how brutal the various Indian nations were to one another, and you understand that these atrocities were only a small part of much wider atrocities throughout the world, it evokes a change in your outlook. Whereas you still are likely to find history very interesting, you no longer romanticize the past.
True but i would not equalize atrocities. between the pequot war, kiefts war and king philips war the amount of murder committed by settler forces was an order of magnitude greater than any murder of settlers or any violence between native nations. Not even close. The mystic massacre and the pound ridge massacre account together for over a thousand murders and by some estimates many thousand, these are far and away the worst instances of murder in the history of the north east and should be considered acts of genocide.
@@marcusatiliusregulusHonestly, I truly believe that the only reason that the settlers acts of brutality was on a larger scale than that of the Pequots was because of greater equipment. The settlers had guns. The Pequots may have had a few guns, but not like the settlers did, and they didn't know how to make new ones or procure ammunition. I would indeed say that what was done to the Pequots was the worst act of genocide in New England, but hardly the only one. Don't forget what happened in the Swamp Battle to the Naragansetts and the Wampanoags. Don't forget how the Abnakis were driven out of New Hampshire. Don't forget how the Nipmucs lured English peacemakers into a trap and massacred them, then attacked villages. Don't forget the brutal butchery by the Wabenaki Confederacy and French allies upon English settlers in Maine colonies throughout the period from the 1680s to the 1750s. Please never forget the Praying Indians who were forced onto Deer Island where hundreds died of starvation and exposure. And also don't forget that large numbers of New England Indians ended up being shipped out as slaves to Bermuda and Barbados.
When you learn about how brutal the Dutch settlers were to the Indians and how brutal the Indian retaliations, and also how brutal the various Indian nations were to one another, and you understand that these atrocities were only a small part of much wider atrocities throughout the world, it evokes a change in your outlook. Whereas you still are likely to find history very interesting, you no longer romanticize the past.
True but i would not equalize atrocities. between the pequot war, kiefts war and king philips war the amount of murder committed by settler forces was an order of magnitude greater than any murder of settlers or any violence between native nations. Not even close. The mystic massacre and the pound ridge massacre account together for over a thousand murders and by some estimates many thousand, these are far and away the worst instances of murder in the history of the north east and should be considered acts of genocide.
@@marcusatiliusregulusHonestly, I truly believe that the only reason that the settlers acts of brutality was on a larger scale than that of the Pequots was because of greater equipment. The settlers had guns. The Pequots may have had a few guns, but not like the settlers did, and they didn't know how to make new ones or procure ammunition. I would indeed say that what was done to the Pequots was the worst act of genocide in New England, but hardly the only one. Don't forget what happened in the Swamp Battle to the Naragansetts and the Wampanoags. Don't forget how the Abnakis were driven out of New Hampshire. Don't forget how the Nipmucs lured English peacemakers into a trap and massacred them, then attacked villages. Don't forget the brutal butchery by the Wabenaki Confederacy and French allies upon English settlers in Maine colonies throughout the period from the 1680s to the 1750s. Please never forget the Praying Indians who were forced onto Deer Island where hundreds died of starvation and exposure. And also don't forget that large numbers of New England Indians ended up being shipped out as slaves to Bermuda and Barbados.
So, Burlington Island almost became Manhattan
The medowlands in Hackensack NJ was a million dollar trapping musk rats all NJ was rich with furs