White woman enslaved by Native Americans; liberals hate her

Sunday, September 20, 2026

n 1861, a small new England town erected a monument to Hannah Duston " possibly the first in the U.S. to honor a woman. But not everyone thinks Duston was a hero. Almost 200 years earlier, Duston had been kidnapped by Native Americans from her home in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and placed with a Native American family. In the dead of night, she picked up a tomahawk and bludgeoned six sleeping children and four sleeping adults to death.

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Though Duston's husband was able to escape with eight of their children, Duston, her newborn daughter, and her nurse, Mary Neff, were taken captive. About 10 other colonists were also kidnapped from Haverhill.

According to the story Duston later told Puritan minister Cotton Mather, her captors promptly killed her baby by dashing "the Brains of the Infant, against a Tree." She and Neff were then forced to walk for weeks before being placed with a Native American family on an island in the Merrimack River.

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What's interesting is the article says she was "placed" with a native american family.

Took great pains to avoid saying she was put into slavery there.

#1 | Posted by subliberal at 2026-09-20 09:25 PM | Reply

Captivity was a strong theme in the colonial experience from the start. In fact, we have masses of captivity narratives, often steeped in religion and its themes - e.g., lost/redeemed, etc. - and filled with often highly questionable or unverifiable information. Captivity narratives were sensationalistic and quite popular.

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-09-21 06:39 AM | Reply

Ah, Hannah Duston, another of history's darlings for the neofascists and MAGA chudlings. A five year-old article.

Chud-slave Boaz is really scraping the bottom of the maggot barrel for stuff to talk about.

#3 | Posted by pumpkinhead at 2026-09-21 11:12 AM | Reply

John Demos' The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story From Early America (www.amazon.com) provides an account of a colonial captive who chose to remain with her captors.

#4 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-09-21 12:02 PM | Reply

Slavery was common amongst some Native American tribes. So was war, kidnaping and rape. Any of you morons who peddle the idea that the natives were just weed-smoking love bugs, who were in tune with the great spirit and mother earth are either lying or uneducated.

#5 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-09-21 12:05 PM | Reply

Slavery was common amongst some Native American tribes

Gee. Thank you Captain Obvious!

Slavery was common in all the past cultures especially where might makes right. Which was very common in the past. Enslaving defeated enemies was a standard economic and political outcome of warfare across the globe.

The woman was a victim of her times. (Thru no choice of her own)

Anyone trying to pretend the morals of our time should apply to the humans of the distant past is the moron.

#6 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-09-21 12:12 PM | Reply

"So was war, kidnaping and rape"

Trump:
War? CHECK.
Kidnapping? CHECK
Rape? CHECK
Slavery? CHECK

What neo-savage is more deserving of a golden smallpox blanket?

#7 | Posted by pumpkinhead at 2026-09-21 12:15 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

#5
They were people who behaved as people behave.

#8 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-09-21 03:58 PM | Reply