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

1614

Slave ships and plague epidemic

Malaga, 40 years before Squanto was delivered there in slavery. Image: Georg Braun, Frans Hogenberg
Malaga, 40 years before Squanto was delivered there in slavery. Image: Georg Braun, Frans Hogenberg

Captain Thomas Hunt captures 20 Patuxets and 7 Nausets, selling them as slaves to Spain. Captain Hunt's expedition brings the plague, destroying the Pawtuxet. An estimated 72,000 to 90,000 people lived in southern New England before contact with Europeans.

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