Pequot War

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The Pequot War was a conflict that took place in 1636 and ended in 1638 in New England, between the Pequot nation and a joint effort of the English colonists from the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their allies from the Narragansett and Mohegan nations. The war concluded with the decisive defeat of the Pequot. In an event called the Mystic massacre, English colonists of the Connecticut Colony and their allies set the village of Pequot Fort ablaze, blocked the exits, and shot anyone trying to escape. By the end of the war, about 700 Pequots had been killed or taken into captivity. Hundreds of Pequot prisoners were enslaved. While some of the enslaved persons were kept in the colonies of the region, they were generally deemed unfit as slaves and less desirable than enslaved people of African origin. Because of this, most of the enslaved Pequots were eventually sold to colonists in Bermuda or the West Indies, while a minority of the original numbers remained in the...

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