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Between the founding of Jamestown in 1607, and the end of the Anglo-Powhatan Wars in 1644, there were a mere eight years of relative peace between the rightful inhabitants of Tsenacomoco and English colonisers.
Those few years of peace were largely the result of one marriage between two people from utterly different worlds.
The descendants of Pocahontas and John Rolfe are still here today, like seeds scattered before a whirlwind.
By Brian Halpin - Before We Were White4.8
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Between the founding of Jamestown in 1607, and the end of the Anglo-Powhatan Wars in 1644, there were a mere eight years of relative peace between the rightful inhabitants of Tsenacomoco and English colonisers.
Those few years of peace were largely the result of one marriage between two people from utterly different worlds.
The descendants of Pocahontas and John Rolfe are still here today, like seeds scattered before a whirlwind.

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