PETER C. MANCALL, professor of history and anthropology, USC Dornsife:
“When the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth, the Algonquian speakers of the region had little anxiety about them. The Indians did not know that the Pilgrims feared the “wild men,” as William Bradford called them. Indeed, some colonists sympathized with the Indians, many of whom succumbed to an epidemic, possibly of plague, that raced through the region with deadly efficiency in 1617.
One Englishman who sought friendship with the Indians was Thomas Morton, an Anglican who believed that colonists and natives of what was becoming “New England” could find a way to live side by side.”
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