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

1676

Metacomet is executed

Site of King Philip's death. Image: R.I. Historical Society
Site of King Philip's death. Image: R.I. Historical Society

On August 12, Captain Benjamin Church tracks down Metacomet and kills him. He mutilates his body, mounts his skull on a pole, and sends his hands to Plymouth Plantation, where they are set upon a pole for display on the newly declared Thanksgiving Day (Wolfe, 2012). The Puritans set off to capture Metacomet’s son because “the offspring of the Devil must pay for the sins of their father.” He is eventually captured and sold into slavery, bound for the Caribbean (Oxendine, 2019). (http://www.getmetaz.xyz)

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