Tales From A Revolution:
The Struggles of A Growing Nation The book, “Tales From A Revolution” highlights some of the most important struggles that early America was facing in the 1600’s. Following the story of multiple individual that time, we see how each of these struggles affected everyone present at the time. A quote from Maya Angelou states that, “History, despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage need not be lived again.” A few of the main struggles that occur in the book include; growing distrust in Native Americans, whether the colonists should keep peace with the Natives, and that there was too much power in the hands of one man. Firstly, the main argument of the book that is presented is that all Native Americans are bad. This is not true, however, because the Native Americans did not do anything that they were not provoked to in the first place. In the beginning of the book, a colonist by the name of Matthew Thomas, “abused and cheated some Doegs by not paying them for [the goods he bought] from them” (5). In return for his rudeness, the Doegs captured his hogs in order to …show more content…
This is the beginning of the conflicts between the colonists and the Native Americans. When the Susquehannocks were attacked and a few were murdered, they murdered a few colonists in order to bring balance back to the universe. This caused the general distrust of Native Americans from the colonists, and the more events that led to their fellow colonists losing their lives, the more the colonists became afraid and enraged. Likewise, when the colonists had captured Thomas Truman for murder, they appeared to want to “disarm the neighbor Indians than [him] (57). Furthermore, towards the end of the book, Francis Nicholson “opened up the Piscataway’s territory to English settlement” (192), taking away their land and causing them to move elsewhere. Instead of making any treaties, Nicholson ignored their cries of
The Struggles of A Growing Nation The book, “Tales From A Revolution” highlights some of the most important struggles that early America was facing in the 1600’s. Following the story of multiple individual that time, we see how each of these struggles affected everyone present at the time. A quote from Maya Angelou states that, “History, despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage need not be lived again.” A few of the main struggles that occur in the book include; growing distrust in Native Americans, whether the colonists should keep peace with the Natives, and that there was too much power in the hands of one man. Firstly, the main argument of the book that is presented is that all Native Americans are bad. This is not true, however, because the Native Americans did not do anything that they were not provoked to in the first place. In the beginning of the book, a colonist by the name of Matthew Thomas, “abused and cheated some Doegs by not paying them for [the goods he bought] from them” (5). In return for his rudeness, the Doegs captured his hogs in order to …show more content…
This is the beginning of the conflicts between the colonists and the Native Americans. When the Susquehannocks were attacked and a few were murdered, they murdered a few colonists in order to bring balance back to the universe. This caused the general distrust of Native Americans from the colonists, and the more events that led to their fellow colonists losing their lives, the more the colonists became afraid and enraged. Likewise, when the colonists had captured Thomas Truman for murder, they appeared to want to “disarm the neighbor Indians than [him] (57). Furthermore, towards the end of the book, Francis Nicholson “opened up the Piscataway’s territory to English settlement” (192), taking away their land and causing them to move elsewhere. Instead of making any treaties, Nicholson ignored their cries of