Only one of these, Samuel Spelman, ever left his own brief account of such a life, which Kupperman has re-edited as a companion volume. The conflict of loyalties came to a head in 1622 when Opechancanough decided to destroy the English colony before the settlers could become too numerous. Although his warriors killed hundreds in a surprise attack, he had waited too long. Some intermediaries, notably Thomas Savage, received advance word of the attack and warned Jamestown. After decades of on-and-off-again warfare, by 1700 the few remaining Indians in Virginia had lost nearly all their lands. As for the English boys, they faded into obscurity; in most cases their dates of death are unknown. As Kupperman describes it near the end of her enthralling tale, “Thomas, Henry, and Robert spent their lives trapped between cultures. The more they knew, the less the powers that be trusted them” – and these powers were on both sides of the divide. Today, Pocahontas is both pitied and admired as an emblem of an America that might have been. Kupperman’s beautifully written account reminds readers that she also had praiseworthy counterparts on the English side. In addition, both of these books are exceptionally attractive and well produced.

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威廉·佩恩（William Penn）：一生

其中只有一个，塞缪尔·斯佩尔曼（Samuel Spelman）曾经留下过自己对这种生活的简短描述，库珀曼（Kupperman）将其重新编辑为同伴卷。当Opechancanough决定在定居者人数众多之前摧毁英国殖民地时，忠诚冲突就到了顶峰。尽管他的战士在一次突袭中杀死了数百人，但他等待了太久。一些中间人，特别是托马斯·萨维奇（Thomas Savage），收到了袭击的事先通知，并警告了詹姆斯敦。经过数十年的断断续续的战争，到1700年，弗吉尼亚州剩下的少数印第安人几乎失去了全部土地。至于英国男孩，他们逐渐变得晦涩难懂。在大多数情况下，他们的死亡日期是未知的。正如库珀曼（Kupperman）在她那令人着迷的故事快要结束时所描述的那样，“托马斯，亨利和罗伯特一生都被两种文化所困。他们越了解，信任他们的权力就越少” –这些权力在鸿沟的两侧。今天，风中奇缘的Pocahontas既是可惜的，也是美国的象征。库珀曼（Kupperman）优美的叙述提醒读者，她在英语方面也有值得称赞的同行。此外，这两本书都非常有吸引力并且制作精良。