The Mashpee Woodland Revolt or Mashpee Revolt was a non-violent, 1833–1834 uprising of the Mashpee people against white inhabitants in New England. A group of the Mashpee Wampanoags traveled to Boston to seek justice for settler encroachments. William Apess was one of their leaders.[1]
Background
editReferences
edit- ^ Delucia, Christine M. (2018). "Contested Passages Coastal and Inland Homelands, Bastoniak, and Internment by the "City Upon a Hill"". Memory lands: King Philip's War and the place of violence in the northeast. New Haven. ISBN 9780300201178.
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Further reading
edit- Brooks, Lisa (2008). "Regenerating the Village Dish: William Apess and the Mashpee Woodland Revolt". The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast on JSTOR. University of Minnesota Press. pp. 163–197. ISBN 9780816647835. JSTOR 10.5749/j.ctttsd1b.
- "William Apess Leads the Bloodless Mashpee Revolt of 1833". New England Historical Society. 4 April 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
- "Indians in Mashpee Demand Self-Government". MassMoments. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
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