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Mary Rowlandson As A Victim

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The arrival of Europeans had a tremendous effect on the Natives American. Millions of Indians had died from diseases, they lost their homes to European settlers. The Native Americans and the colonists lived peacefully for fifty years until 1675, when the two broke and went to wars. Mary Rowlandson, her town was one of the many towns that got attacked by the Indian. According to the Dictionary. Com, victim is a person who suffers from a destructive or injurious action or agency. Therefore, Mary Rowlandson should be considered a victim because she was mentally and physically suffer from this tragic event. Mary was taken captive along with her three kids. However, they were separated from each other, only her youngest daughter, Sarah was kept …show more content…

The colonist and Natives people lived peacefully for fifty years until colonist eagerly claimed the lands that the indian have been living for years. The act of claiming things that not even theirs had created tension between the colonists and Native peoples, especially with the Pequots. The colonists blamed the Pequot for attacking their ships. In revenge, the colonists set fire and burn the Pequots’ villages. It was tragic event, as William Bradford described, “ Those that escaped from the fire were slain with the sword; some hewed to pieces, others run threw with their rapiers… It was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fire, and the streams of blood quenching the same.” After the Pequot the wars, the colonists were free from the Native American for half a century. Facing death, disease, and the loss of their home, they have nothing to lose so the native peoples decided to strike back. They attacked and raid the colonist settlements, Mary Rowlandson’s town was one of them. Mary witnessed her town, her house burned down, and the people she know stripped naked and disemboweled. She described, the raid was “doleful sight”. This whole event was cruel but the colonists had pushed Indians to their limits to the point they just have to strike

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