United States: Murder On The Saltwater Frontier: The Death Of John Oldham

United States: Murder On The Saltwater Frontier: The Death Of John Oldham Andrew C. Lipman, 2011   This article considers the larger material and political contexts of the 1636 murder of John Oldham aboard his boat by Narragansett-allied Indians, an event that was one of the causes of the 1636–38 Pequot War. Oldham’s slaying illustrates how the contested region between New England and New Netherland was a “saltwater frontier” where the primary arena of cross-cultural exchange was the...

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