Ultimately, the Pequots were defeated: the tribe was effectively eliminated, with 700 of its members killed, captured, or sold into slavery. Conflict had simmered between tribes and European traders for decades, and after the Pequot killed some English traders, Massachusetts Bay sent punitive expeditions against the tribe, the most notorious being the massacre at Mystic, when a fortified village was wiped out and most of its inhabitants killed. This conflict was fought between 16 in what’s now Massachusetts and Connecticut, between the Pequot tribe and the English colonists (along with Narragansett and Mohegan allies). The Pequot War was a seminal event for the young colony. The colony, founded in 1628, was made up of more than 20,000 colonists, mostly English Puritans (Calvinist Protestants who resisted the forms of worship imposed by the established Church of England), by the time the story begins. Hope Leslie is set in the 17th-century Massachusetts Bay Colony, which originally included parts of present-day Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Connecticut. Though Catherine received several proposals throughout her life, she remained unmarried, and she divided her time between New York City and the Massachusetts Berkshires. Many of her novels included themes of patriotism, understanding between people of different cultures and religions, and women transcending the social roles expected of them. Among her novels, Hope Leslie gained an international readership and has had the most enduring popularity. Having converted from Calvinism to Unitarianism, she published a pamphlet promoting religious tolerance, and she began making a living by publishing short stories, some of them specifically for young people. While still a young woman, Sedgwick became a prominent figure on America’s early literary scene. Catharine was close to her many siblings, two of whom, Harry and Theodore, were especially encouraging of Catharine’s writing, helping her publish and promote it. Elizabeth Freeman, a former slave whose freedom Theodore secured and who was subsequently employed by the family, helped raise Catharine and had a noted influence on her. As a lawyer, he also fought to abolish slavery in his home state, a fact in which Catharine took great pride. House of Representatives and as a Massachusetts senator. Theodore Sedgwick served as Speaker of the U.S. Catharine Maria Sedgwick was born to Theodore and Pamela Dwight Sedgwick, the sixth of their ten children.
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