Invasion from All Directions—Stolen Lands, Stolen Peoples 1600-1699

1613

English kidnap Pocahontas, daughter of Chief Wahunsonacock

Pocahontas. Image: Simon van de Passe
Pocahontas. Image: Simon van de Passe

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.

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