how did captain argall manage to capture pocahontas as hostage
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Explanation:
Chief and his wife had helped Captain Argall capture Pocahontas for a payment of a copper kettle and some coloured beads.
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Whether the incident happened as Captain Samuel Argall described it has not been terribly controversial among historians, as most of the recent biographies and histories tell the story in pretty much the same way, although we've probably all become a bit more sophisticated about our understanding of the Patawomeck point of view. I don't know that I can add anything of historical record to cast doubt on the widely-held view of the story, but I think it's worth noting that we are relying on Samuel Argall's account via Ralph Hamor, John Smith and Samuel Purchas, and none* of the three reporters were actual witnesses of the events that Argall described. Smith and Purchas weren't even in Virginia at the time. [* I'm still trying to verify if Ralph Hamor was present in Passapatanzy or not; but it seems that he wasn't.]
The basic story is as follows:
In March 1613, Captain Samuel Argall sailed to the Potomac River to trade with the friendly Patawomeck tribe. Traveling so far to trade had become necessary due to the ongoing war between the Powhatans and the English. Argall learned that Pocahontas was visiting the Patawomecks, perhaps to trade, and he decided it was an excellent opportunity to capture her and hold her for ransom in order to persuade Wahunsenaca to repatriate a number of white settlers then living with the Powhatans, as well as to get him to return some tools and guns that had been stolen. To get Pocahontas onto the boat, Argall pressured Japazaws (a lesser chief, whose name has different spellings in the various accounts) to make it happen, saying that if he didn't cooperate, they would no longer be friends. Japazaws, understandably, protested, saying that his tribe would be vulnerable to reprisals by Powhatan. Argall assured him that the English would protect his tribe against Powhatan. He also offered a copper kettle as payment. Japazaws and his wife subsequently persuaded Pocahontas to board the ship, on the pretext that Japazaws's wife wanted to see it and needed Pocahontas to accompany her. If Argall is to be believed, the stratagem worked as planned, and the abduction occurred without a hitch.
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