Analysis Of Forgotten History By Wendy Warren

Wendy Warren is a professor who works in the field of the history of colonization in the Americas. She speaks in a segment called, Forgotten History: How The New England Colonists Embraced The Slave Trade in the Fresh air podcast called, Warren and Terry Gross, the host, go back and forth answering questions about the information that Warren wrote about. Warren starts the podcast by sharing a passage that man wrote about how a white man raped a black slave women and got her pregnant in order to make more slaves for himself. In the podcast the professor, Wendy Warren, interprets the many speculations against the reality of slaves during this time. The significance of this podcast was to show how European colonization was a “time of warfare and brutality and a lot of fear and trauma”. Warren uses the Puritans to show how even though they sought to travel to this new land to escape the corruptness of Great Britain,

From looking at the textbook, Exploring American Histories, the authors do not mention slavery in the Americas till time of crash crops. From the information that Warren has found, it shows that colonists not only found a way to get the slaves, but were able to use them for their own needings. Another interpretation that Warren speaks about is how the colonists treated the Indians. In the textbook, it states how the colonies sought to gain a relationship with the Indians to be able to stay on their land and survive in this new land. It makes no mention that they were actually enslaved. Warren tells that the Indians were “ Killed or displaced. Some, it turns out, are actually sold, war captives. About a thousand at least, maybe, are sold to the West Indies, part of the Atlantic slave trade.” From this quote from the podcast, it shows how somethings were hidden from history in order for history of America seems pure. Even though that may not be