Invasion from All Directions—Stolen Lands, Stolen Peoples 1600-1699
1613
English kidnap Pocahontas, daughter of Chief Wahunsonacock
They offer to ransom her for all the English prisoners held by the Powhatan. The Powhatan release their prisoners, but the English keep Pocahontas and take her to England. While captive, she is Christianized, given the name Rebeca, and married to her captor, John Rolfe (Nies, 1996). She dies traveling home to Virginia in 1617. Her child remains in England.