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Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma
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"CaptivatingĀ .Ā .Ā . ideal for anyone interested in the true story of Pocahontas [and] historians and students interested in early Colonial American history." āSimone Bonim,
History in Review
Camilla Townsend's stunning book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas in capturing how similar seventeenth century Native Americans wereāin the way they saw, understood, and struggled to control their worldānot only to the invading British but to ourselves.
Neither naĆÆve nor innocent, Indians like Pocahontas and her father, the powerful king Powhatan, confronted the vast might of the English with sophistication, diplomacy, and violence. Indeed, Pocahontas's life is a testament to the subtle intelligence that Native Americans, always aware of their material disadvantages, brought against the military power of the colonizing English. Resistance, espionage, collaboration, deception: Pocahontas's life is here shown as a road map to Native American strategies of defiance exercised in the face of overwhelming odds and in the hope for a semblance of independence worth the name.
Townsend's Pocahontas emergesāas a young child on the banks of the Chesapeake, an influential noblewoman visiting a struggling Jamestown, an English gentlewoman in Londonāfor the first time in three-dimensions; allowing us to see and sympathize with her people as never before.
"Camilla Townsend, who writes with a sharp sword and a crackling whip, refuses to believe anything just because so many people have repeated it." ā Harper's Magazine
"TownsendĀ .Ā .Ā . skillfully piece[s] together a plausible picture of a brave, intelligent young woman and her eventful, if brief, life." āJohn M. and Priscilla S. Taylor, The Washington Times
Camilla Townsend's stunning book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas in capturing how similar seventeenth century Native Americans wereāin the way they saw, understood, and struggled to control their worldānot only to the invading British but to ourselves.
Neither naĆÆve nor innocent, Indians like Pocahontas and her father, the powerful king Powhatan, confronted the vast might of the English with sophistication, diplomacy, and violence. Indeed, Pocahontas's life is a testament to the subtle intelligence that Native Americans, always aware of their material disadvantages, brought against the military power of the colonizing English. Resistance, espionage, collaboration, deception: Pocahontas's life is here shown as a road map to Native American strategies of defiance exercised in the face of overwhelming odds and in the hope for a semblance of independence worth the name.
Townsend's Pocahontas emergesāas a young child on the banks of the Chesapeake, an influential noblewoman visiting a struggling Jamestown, an English gentlewoman in Londonāfor the first time in three-dimensions; allowing us to see and sympathize with her people as never before.
"Camilla Townsend, who writes with a sharp sword and a crackling whip, refuses to believe anything just because so many people have repeated it." ā Harper's Magazine
"TownsendĀ .Ā .Ā . skillfully piece[s] together a plausible picture of a brave, intelligent young woman and her eventful, if brief, life." āJohn M. and Priscilla S. Taylor, The Washington Times
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- ONE - Amonuteās People
- TWO - What the English Knew
- THREE - First Contact
- FOUR - Jamestown
- FIVE - Kidnapped
- SIX - Imprisonment
- SEVEN - Pocahontas and John
- EIGHT - In London Town
- NINE - 1622, and Queen Cockacoeske
- Notes
- Bibliographical Essay
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- AMERICAN PORTRAITS - Edited by Louis P. Masur and Thomas P. Slaughter
- Copyright Page