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To: plain talk

I read the story as published by Charles C. Coffin, who wrote a series of books about the settling of North America and the founding of the United States.

That story was in the volume titled, “The Story of Liberty”. It was written for grade school students in the late 1800s. The language and syntax would probably stump most college students today. I’m not sure they would even be able to comprehend the stories, let alone the ultimate gist.

In any event, the Indian “children” were teenage warriors, old enough to butcher settlers without mercy. Hannah testified that her husband and 9 other children were working in the fields after she had just given birth to their 10th child, when the raiding party, supplied and financed by French Jesuits, descended upon them.

The rest of her family were barely able to escape with their lives, the raiding party happy to take Hannah and her midwife to sell into slavery in Canada, after murdering Hannah’s newborn right in front of her.

Charles C. Coffin was also a well known Civil War correspondent.


78 posted on 06/09/2024 8:50:59 AM PDT by Westbrook (The Democrats are wizards at two things: Finding votes and losing evidence.)
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thanks for the info


81 posted on 06/09/2024 10:33:15 AM PDT by plain talk
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