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(0)Alden T. Vaughan
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"This important new collection brings together ten of Alden Vaughan's essays about race relations in the British colonies. Focusing on the variable role played by cultural and racial perceptions in creating policies for Native Americans and African Americans, the essays include explorations of the origins of slavery and racism in Virginia, the causes of the Puritans' war against the Pequots, and the contest between natives and colonists to win the...
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In contrast to most accounts of Puritan-Indian relations, this book argues that the first two generations of Puritan settlers were neither generally hostile toward their Indian neighbors nor indifferent to their territorial rights. Rather, American Puritans, especially their political and religious leaders, sought peaceful and equitable relations as the first step in molding the Indians into neo-Englishmen.