Posted on 09/12/2020 7:37:41 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1823, American Revolution veteran Abram/Abraham Antoine was hanged in Madison County, New York, for avenging the execution of his daughter by murdering the man whose testimony hanged her.
Antoine was a Native American — presumably, although I have not seen it explicitly stated, Oneida.
This was the very springtime of American continental expansion, a project well-understood to entail the removal and, uh, “chastisement” and of the peoples lately occupying that continent.
Some more sensitive or scholarly souls of the time noticed, as this one does, that “[t]ime is advancing, by rapid strides, towards the extinction of the Indian race in North America.” Resolving therefore “to preserve such authenticated facts as, at this day, lie within our reach, that posterity may not be altogether ignorant of characteristics attached to a various people, that once reigned lords over this wide extended country,” a fellow Revolutionary War veteran named George Turner (Anglo, he) knocked out a volume meant to capture a snapshot of dying peoples from the viewpoint of the conqueror. (Turner really was an interested party: he’d speculated aggressively in the Northwest Territory.)...
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
Cooper in his “The Last of the Mohicans” predicts the extinction of the Indians (and also of the blacks in the United States). Wrong on both accounts.
Kind of makes that revenge thing less romantic-sounding.
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