#76 The Road to Plymouth Part 3: Kidnapped!
The History of the Americans
Jack Henneman
4.9 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
This episode looks at the kidnapping of Squanto – Tisquantum – in 1614, along with 26 other Wampanoags, in the context of the extraordinarily robust trade between northern Europeans and the tribes along the northeastern Atlantic Coast of North America. Tisquantum would become one of the most important “cosmopolitan” Indians of the era, and in a horrifying twist of fate would become one of the last of his people to survive.
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References for this episode
Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
David Hackett Fischer, Champlain’s Dream
Neal Salisbury, “Treacherous Waters: Tisquantum, the Red Atlantic, and the Beginnings of Plymouth Colony,” Early American Literature, Vol 56 (2021)
John Booss, “Survival of the Pilgrims: A Reevaluation of the Lethal Epidemic Among the Wampanoag,” Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Winter 2019.
Squanto (Wikipedia)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the History of the Americans podcast episode 76. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm your host, Jack Heneman. |
| 0:13.7 | And I'm recording this on June 13th, 2022, in a secure undisclosed location in Denver, Colorado. |
| 0:21.6 | I came up here yesterday to visit my beloved daughter and to attend the meeting of the Heterodox Academy, |
| 0:29.6 | an organization devoted to heterodox thinking on America's campuses. |
| 0:33.6 | It's great outfit, you should check it out. |
| 0:36.6 | Anyway, I had to schlep my microphone up here |
| 0:39.2 | because I didn't get this recorded before I left. So I'm sitting in a hotel room. There's an air handler. |
| 0:45.3 | There's all kinds of stuff going on. I hope it's going to end up sounding okay. |
| 0:49.0 | If you are new to the podcast, we're telling the history of the lands now encompassed by the United States |
| 0:55.4 | from the beginning without presentism. Every now and then we get a wild hair on and |
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