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The Pocahontas/Smith Relationship
There seems to be a lot of disconnect between the Disney version of the Pocahontas/Smith relationship vs. what we know about the “real” Pocahontas because of numerous protests that procured when the Disney movie came out. The Disney version of the story puts the relationship in good light and doesn’t seem to depict some of the brutality that was going on between the two groups. I have reason to believe that the relationship between Pocahontas and Captain Smith was not any where near as “romantic” as what was displayed in the movie clip due to the fact that Captain Smith did not have a relationship after his escape and due to the fact that John Rolfe ended up having a relationship with her. Based on the evidence that Captain Smith did not mention
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