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The Controversial Legacy Of Hannah Duston, The Colonist Who Killed 10 Native Americans
All That's Interesting ^ | December 7, 2021 | Genevieve Carlton

Posted on 06/08/2024 1:33:03 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat

After being kidnapped by Native Americans in 1697, Hannah Duston brutally killed her captors with a tomahawk — including six children.

In 1861, a small new England town erected a monument to Hannah Duston — possibly the first in the U.S. to honor a woman. But not everyone thinks Duston was a hero.

Almost 200 years earlier, Duston had been kidnapped by Native Americans from her home in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and placed with a Native American family. In the dead of night, she picked up a tomahawk and bludgeoned six sleeping children and four sleeping adults to death....

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TOPICS: History
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1 posted on 06/08/2024 1:33:03 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
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To: CheshireTheCat

Controversial legacy?

“According to the story Duston later told Puritan minister Cotton Mather, her captors promptly killed her baby by dashing “the Brains of the Infant, against a Tree.”

I’m part Cherokee and there is no controversy in this story as far as I am concerned. After what they did to her baby all bets were off and she killed and scalped those indians.


2 posted on 06/08/2024 1:41:30 PM PDT by plain talk
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If Hollywood was less gay they’d make a movie about her. They want “girl power” films and you can get more powerful than her story.


3 posted on 06/08/2024 1:43:24 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Kidnapped. Was she raped too? Bless her for defending herself


4 posted on 06/08/2024 1:45:03 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: CheshireTheCat

Anyone have a loaf of bread? There is a lot of baloney in that article, might as well have a sandwich.

“The past is a other country. They do things differently there.” Perhaps it is best to first try to understand people of long ago on their own terms before imposing one’s own modern standards on them. I don’t see much of that here.


5 posted on 06/08/2024 1:46:04 PM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: CheshireTheCat

I love a story with a Happy Ending, it would only be better if Hannah had raised a Military Force and returned to the field to Exterminate any other members of the savage group that kidnapped, imprisoned and enslaved her and her community.


6 posted on 06/08/2024 1:48:12 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: plain talk
The Indians didn't have microwave ovens at the time as Hamas did to cook Jewish babies to death.

Getting one's brains dashed out on a tree or rock was actually quicker and more humane.

There has always been brutality.

History is what it is.

7 posted on 06/08/2024 1:49:08 PM PDT by Mogger (AreIn bookstores is a very expensive, beautifully bound in green leather Holy Koran. If one was goin)
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To: CheshireTheCat
But not everyone thinks Duston was a hero.

No, many who are literate think she was a heroine.

8 posted on 06/08/2024 1:49:41 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: CheshireTheCat

What if anything is “controversial” about killing your captors who murdered your child in cold blood. God Blesses this woman to this day. Libs shut the actual hell up!


9 posted on 06/08/2024 1:51:09 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: CheshireTheCat

“and placed with a Native American family.”

and again—”being placed with a Native American family”

I didn’t know modern liberals described slavery in such a gentle way.

She was taken as a slave by people who had just murdered dozens of her friends and neighbors of which 15 were children and they had murdered her own child after first taking the child as a slave or for ransom and dragged her into a life of slavery and cruelty worse than death.

She and the other enslaved who helped her did what they had to do to escape.


10 posted on 06/08/2024 1:52:28 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: HartleyMBaldwin
But not everyone thinks Duston was a hero.
No, many who are literate think she was a heroine.

And that was 200 years before heroin.
(Invented by Bayer in an attempt to create a drug that had the effects of cocaine without the niddling side effect of addiction. Didn't work.)

11 posted on 06/08/2024 1:54:19 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: CheshireTheCat
In 1861, a small new England town erected a monument to Hannah Duston — possibly the first in the U.S. to honor a woman.

No doubt that's also woke stupidity. No statues at all to women like Betsy Ross, Dolly Madison, Joan of Arc or even the Virgin Mary?

12 posted on 06/08/2024 1:56:26 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: ansel12

sounds like the first slave revolt

a one woman slave revolt


13 posted on 06/08/2024 1:56:50 PM PDT by ChronicMA
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To: CheshireTheCat
You go girl!
“If you have a gun, shoot 'em in the head. That's a sure way to kill 'em. If you don't, get yourself a club or a torch. Beat 'em or burn 'em. They go up pretty easy.”


14 posted on 06/08/2024 1:59:01 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Indians killing infants or small children when taking captives was very very common. They slowed down escaping and traveling back to camp and preoccupied the slaves from being hard workers and were merely useless eaters if taken alive . Brain dashing was the normal method.

Older captured children were sometimes kept if they could keep up with the march, and had potential as adoptees or workers.

Hannah adopted the culture and values of her captors.


15 posted on 06/08/2024 2:01:08 PM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: CheshireTheCat
Good Part II of your executed today thread posted prior.
16 posted on 06/08/2024 2:02:09 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Same here. I’ll second that.


17 posted on 06/08/2024 2:05:19 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: plain talk

That she killed the children, I guess, is controversial to some. I’m not sure what she was supposed to do. Leave them alive to fend for themselves? Was one old enough to do that? Would that one have gotten him or herself to other Indians soon enough that they could hunt down and go after Hannah and the other two and catch up with them?

Take the kids with them? They would have made noise whereas Hannah and the other two would have wanted to keep as quite as possible when traveling in areas where they thought they could be heard.

Tie the kids up? Maybe they would have been found before they died of thirst but long after Hannah and the other two were far enough away they couldn’t be tracked down. But maybe they would have died a slow death.


18 posted on 06/08/2024 2:05:31 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: Deaf Smith

Yeah, I don’t recall every hearing about Hannah and did a search and didn’t see that anyone had every posted about her.


19 posted on 06/08/2024 2:06:25 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: plain talk

History cannot be judged in the rear view mirror.


20 posted on 06/08/2024 2:07:06 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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