Through the readings this week, we were given new insight into the realm of sixteenth century exploration. As we take in the words of John Smith (From The Generall Historie of Virginia New-England, and the Summer Isles) we are introduced to to someone whose well-known reputation has been contorted and misinterpreted. Naturally, we uncovered this week that it was not Smith whose love story involved Pocahontas, but John Rolfe. Because of this, the tale of Pocahontas is no longer a weepy, engrosing, lazy-smiling, love story, but one of an easily influenced native who is said to have "turned her back on her people."
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