American History Revealed Richard Ives

Season two premier. After his banishment from Plymouth Colony, Roger Williams and his family are taken in by the Salem Colony with open arms. Little did they expect that Williams' incindiary views of worship, and disallegance to the crown, would cause uproar within this small New England community, and with the high council of Boston. Listen in the follow his adventures through banishment, persecultion and ultimately, adoption by an unlikely ally.

In this episode of AHR, we discuss the role of Mistress Anne Hutchinson, now regarded by many as one of the most influential female figures in early American History. Defiant of the enforced spiritual laws of New England, she becomes an object of fixation for Govenor of Massachusetts John Winthrop. As her following builds, he begins his campaign to defame and smear her name as a spiritual leader. Meanwhile, Roger Williams continues to fight the powers that be in Boston.

In this episode, we discuss the beginnings of The Pequot War, a violent series of battles that cost both settlers and natives alike countless lives. We begin with the attack of trader John Stone and his men by Pequot chief Sassaucs and his fellow tribesmen, and the violence that ensued for years to come. 

In this second installment of the two-part tale of The Pequot War, we see the aftermath of the brutal attack and murder of John Oldham and his crew. As outrage ripped through the New England colonies, Massachusetts officials called upon a once exiled Minister Roger Williams for help in a surprise twist. Meanwhile, violence ensued between the Pequots and the settlers in what became one of bloodiest chapters of early American history.

In this episode, we examen the persecution of religious freethinker Anne Hutchinson and her subsequent exile. Accused by Minister John Winthrop of two crimes: being adverse to the standard teachings of the religious community she inhabited, and for being a woman that didn’t know her place, she faced a slanderous trail that held her future, and the future of her family, in the balance. 

In this follow-up the the last episode, Anne Hutchinson and her family leave Boston for New Amsterdam with the permission of the Dutch. Anne faces the most painful moment of her life, and after believing they had finally found sanctuary, the entire Hutchinson family is met with a gruesome and untimely fate.