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Article: Possession: Indian bodies, cultural control, and colonialism in the Pequot War.(Critical essay)
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- Early American Studies
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- September 22, 2008
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ABSTRACT This essay interrogates key aspects of the Pequot War and its aftermath, when bodies became contested sites of cultural control that pivotally reshaped colonial New England. The rhetoric and justifications of an offensive English war against the Pequots relied on the image of contested manhood in warfare, household, and husbandry; after the defeat of the Pequots, male Pequot bodies continued to be treated as hostile and threatening. Pequot women and children also became subjects of English cultural ideologies. Viewed as nonthreatening and domestic, they were enslaved, but within the boundaries of English plantations. This treatment revealed English gender ...
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