Welcome to the History of the Americans podcast episode 189.

I'm your host, Jack Heneman, and I'm recording this episode on July 23rd, 2025, in Austin, Texas.

We are telling the history of the lands now encompassed by the United States

from the beginning without intentional presentism. With the death of Mediom, King Philip,

on August 12, 1676, King Philip's war in southern New England had come to an end for practical purposes.

The parallel fighting with the Abanakis in Maine, which we have barely touched upon, would continue

for a couple of years, but that was by many accounts a separate war, and we will treat it as such.

Massachusetts, Plymouth, and Connecticut considered themselves to have won the war,

and by and large disbanded their militias after Wampanog and Narragansett resistance collapsed.

This episode will be, blessedly no doubt, the last of our King Phillips War saga.

Today we recount epilogues and codas and consider consequences.

After Phillips capture an execution, there remained three important sachems still at large.

Quinipin, an arrogance at sachem who had been Weedamo's last husband, Anawan, who had been Philip's chief captain, and had escaped the encounter

that had killed Philip, and Tisbequin, the famed black sachem of Damascus.

Quinipan was caught by Rhode Islanders a few days after the killing of Mediom on August 12th

and brought to Newport, Providence having been burned to the ground for trial.

During the trial, Quineappan acknowledged his role as Kananches No. 2, and was executed

along with three others.

Rhode Island treated other captured Indians, those who were not deemed notorious, as the wages

of war, but a bit more humanely than Plymouth.

Non-notorious Indians who fell into Rhode Island's hands were consigned to work as servants in Rhode Island for nine years.

Harsh as that sounds, it was better by a long shot than being sold as a slave for life to the markets for humans in Cadiz, Spain, the West Indies, and perhaps even

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