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In the summer of 1610, some of the starving settlers ran to the Indians to be fed.
When the summer came, the governor asked the Powhatans to return the runaways and received “disdainful” replies.
No such mixed marriage took place in 17th century Massachusetts and only two more in Virginia before the legislature outlawed the practice in 1691 (Foner 40).
One can argue that the cause for celebration is more for economic reasons than the intermixing of two cultures as the Virginia Company sought to present Jamestown as a palatable place to live.
, or children of marriages between Indian and French, who seemed more willing to accept Indians as part of colonial society than the English colonizers, became guides, traders and interpreters (Foner 78).
Creoles (slaves born in the New World) (Foner 120) were often given their freedom either upon the death of the father or while still young.
(Zinn 12)Pocahontas was kidnapped by the settlers in 1613.
They killed fifteen or sixteen Indians, burned houses, cut down the corn growing around the village, took the queen of the tribe and her children into boats, threw the children into the water and shot them in the head, and stabbed the queen to death.The government punished premarital sex more severely between Africans and Europeans than the same acts involving two white persons but blacks and whites still sometimes ran away together and established intimate relationships (Foner 52).Skin color seemed to not matter when the very human need for mating is involved.This marriage was indeed extraordinary, different races notwithstanding.The relationship between the Powhatans and the English colonists was tension-wrought.
