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Image: Abduction of Pocahontas Engraving by Johann Theodore de Bry

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Description: The Abduction of Pocahontas. She was an Algonquian princess in North America. Original Author: Johann Theodore de Bry after Georg Keller. Created: 1624 engraving, based on 1617 engraving. Medium: Engraving.


"Samuel Argali persuaded Japazaws, werowance of Pasptanzie, to assist him in capturing Pocahontas. Here the werowance and his wife, holding the "small Copper kettle" and "other les valuable toies" given to them by the English, entice Pocahontas to board the English ship Treasurer" (Fausz, J. Frederick. “An ‘Abundance of Blood Shed on Both Sides’: England’s First Indian War, 1609-1614.” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 98, no. 1, 1990, pp. 3–56. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4249117. Accessed 14 Oct. 2024.)
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