 the pequot war was an armed conflict between the pequot tribe and an alliance of the english colonists of the massachusetts bay, plymouth, and saybrook colonies and their native american allies (the narragansett and mohegan tribes) which occurred between 1634 and 1638. the pequots lost the war. at the end, about seven hundred pequots had been killed or taken into captivity.john winthrop, journal of john winthrop. ed. dunn, savage, yeandle (cambridge, ma: harvard university press, 1996), 228. hundreds of prisoners were sold into slavery to the west indies.lion gardiner, "relation of the pequot warres", in history of the pequot war: the contemporary accounts of mason, underhill, vincent, and gardiner (cleveland, 1897), p. 138; ethel boissevain, "whatever became of the new england indians shipped to bermuda to be sold as slaves," man in the northwest 11 (spring 1981), pp. 103-114; karen o. kupperman, providence island, 1630-1641: the other puritan colony (cambridge, ma: harvard university press, 1993), p. 172 other survivors were dispersed. the result was the elimination of the pequot as a viable polity in what is present-day southern new england. it would take the pequot more than three and a half centuries to regain political and economic power in their traditional homeland along the pequot (present-day thames) and mystic rivers in what is now southeastern connecticut.laurence m. hauptman and james d. wherry, eds.the pequots in southern new england: the fall and rise of
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