Other Pequots were enslaved and shipped to Bermuda or the West Indies, or were forced to become household slaves in English households in Connecticut and Massachusetts Bay. [30] The Colonies essentially declared the Pequots extinct by …

Nov 29, 2020 · Diaries, letters, and other sources from the early colonial era document cases of Native enslavement, including during the Pequot War.

Feb 8, 2012 · It was July 13, 1637, a critical day in the Pequot War that had consumed Puritan Connecticut for several years. Six weeks before, in a key victory for the colonists, Capt. John Mason had led a massacre at the Pequot fort in Mystic, killing as many as …

Nov 1, 2023 · This important talk by award-winning historian Margaret Newell revealed the origins of New England slavery in the Pequot War – a violent conflict from the first years of the Massachusetts colony when the colonists took the first step to establish enslavement of both Indigenous and African peoples.

Mar 27, 2019 · Until the “Pequot War” of 1636-37, military conflicts in North America between Native Americans and arriving Europeans had been primarily local, meant to settle individ­ual grievances or punish specific cases of kidnapping, murder, or theft.

The Fairfield Swamp Fight (also known as the Great Swamp Fight) was the last engagement of the Pequot War and marked defeat of the Pequot tribe in the war and the loss of their recognition as a political entity in the 17th century.

The Pequot War from 1636-38 provided New England leaders the chance to increase trade in Native-American slaves. A powerful trading natio n, the Pequot dominated southern New England in the decades before the English arrived.

In a July 13, 1637 journal entry, in the midst of the Pequot War, Governor John Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony wrote of sending captive Pequots to the West Indies to be sold into slavery: We sent fifteen of the boys and two women to Bermuda, by Mr. Peirce; but he, missing it, carried them to Providence Isle.

Survivors of swamp siege divided as slaves among Indian allies: 80 to Uncas and Mohegans, 80 to Miantonomo and Narragansetts, 20 to Ninigret and Niantics; No Pequot may inhabit former Pequot territory; Name Pequot to be expunged; Pequot slaves must take name of tribes to which they are enslaved. Fall 1638

Pequot, Algonquian-speaking North American Indians who lived in the Thames valley in what is now Connecticut. The Pequot War (1636-37) fought against a coalition of English settlers and their Native American allies eliminated the Pequot as an impediment to English colonization of southern New England.