New England Frontier, 3rd edition

Puritans and Indians 1620-1675

by Alden T Vaughan

In contrast to most accounts of Puritan-Indian relations, Vaughan argues that the first two generations of Puritan settlers were neither generally hostile toward their Indian neighbors nor indifferent to their territorial rights. Rather, American Puritans sought peaceful and equitable relations as the first step in molding the Indians into neo-Englishmen.

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