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In reality, indigenous people were either being assimilated or violently erased from American history.ĥ ‘Lady Rebecca’ was sceptical about the colonists’ intentions towards her people Pocahontas, after her marriage to Rolfe and the birth of her son Thomas, was viewed in the 19th century as the Mother of Two Nations – a convenient notion for proponents of the ‘Noble Savage’ stereotype that emerged. It is unlikely that the Jamestown authorities would have allowed the match if Kocoum had still been alive, and it is possible that he had been killed in combat. Rolfe couched his passion for Pocahontas as an altruistic initiative designed to win her conversion to Christianity.
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In a letter to Sir Thomas Dale, acting governor of the Jamestown colony, in which he asks permission to marry Pocahontas, Rolfe describes her as: “Pocahontas, to whom my hearty and best thoughts are and have been a long time so entangled and enthralled in so intricate a labyrinth, that I was even a-wearied to unwind myself thereout.”
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What is clear, however, is that Rolfe was besotted with her. It’s impossible to know what Pocahontas’s feelings were for her first husband, Kocoum, and later for Rolfe.