Henry SpelmanHenry Spelman was a new arrival in England's Jamestown colony who, at age fourteen, was sent to live with the Powhatans, Pocahontas's people. Henry is unique among boys who lived with Native people because he wrote about his experiences, and hs memoir is a major source on Chesapeake Algonquian life in the early days of English colonization. As he matured, he was caught between loyalties. Colonial authorities put him on trial for informing Opechancanough, the Powhatan chief, about changes in Jamestown, and he died at the age of twenty-eight in fighting between Natives and English. Read More Read Less
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