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1. Why did the colonists feel betrayed by Opechancanough’s attack?
Fifteen years after the settlement of Jamestown in 1607, the coastal Algonquian leader Opechancanough brother of Powhatan, the chief who first encountered the English settlers organized a surprise attack against the Virginia colonists. The following account of the attack, written in 1622 by Edward Waterhouse, summarizes for members of the London based Virginia company the colonists understanding of what happened and what should be done about it. Waterhouse declaration expressed the colonists’ sense of betrayal and outrage coupled with justifications for unrestrained hostility toward Native American and explanation of how hostility would benefit the colonist and the Virginia Company.
2. How did the Virginians survive the attack?
On the Friday the fatal day the 22 of March, as also in the evening, as in other days before, they came unarmed into houses, without Bowes and arrowes, or other weapons, with Deere , Turkeys, Fish, Furres, and other provisions, to sell, and trucke with us, for glasse, beads, and other trifle. Yea in some places, sat down at breakfast with our people at their tables, whom immediately with their own tools and weapons, either lay down, or standing in their houses, they basely and barbarously murdered, not sparing either age or sex, man, women, or child; so sudden in their cruel execution, that few or none discerned the weapon or blow that brought them to destruction. And by this means that fatal Friday morning, the Virginians survive the attack there fell under the bloody and barbarous hands of that perfidious and inhuman people, contrary to all laws God and men, of Nature and Nations, three hundred forty seven men, women, and children, most by their own weapons; and not being content with taking away life alone, they fell after again upon the dead, making as well as they could, a fresh murder, defacing, dragging, and mangling the dead carkasses into many
Fifteen years after the settlement of Jamestown in 1607, the coastal Algonquian leader Opechancanough brother of Powhatan, the chief who first encountered the English settlers organized a surprise attack against the Virginia colonists. The following account of the attack, written in 1622 by Edward Waterhouse, summarizes for members of the London based Virginia company the colonists understanding of what happened and what should be done about it. Waterhouse declaration expressed the colonists’ sense of betrayal and outrage coupled with justifications for unrestrained hostility toward Native American and explanation of how hostility would benefit the colonist and the Virginia Company.
2. How did the Virginians survive the attack?
On the Friday the fatal day the 22 of March, as also in the evening, as in other days before, they came unarmed into houses, without Bowes and arrowes, or other weapons, with Deere , Turkeys, Fish, Furres, and other provisions, to sell, and trucke with us, for glasse, beads, and other trifle. Yea in some places, sat down at breakfast with our people at their tables, whom immediately with their own tools and weapons, either lay down, or standing in their houses, they basely and barbarously murdered, not sparing either age or sex, man, women, or child; so sudden in their cruel execution, that few or none discerned the weapon or blow that brought them to destruction. And by this means that fatal Friday morning, the Virginians survive the attack there fell under the bloody and barbarous hands of that perfidious and inhuman people, contrary to all laws God and men, of Nature and Nations, three hundred forty seven men, women, and children, most by their own weapons; and not being content with taking away life alone, they fell after again upon the dead, making as well as they could, a fresh murder, defacing, dragging, and mangling the dead carkasses into many