Ancient American Literature - How Deep Is The Democratic Soul in America

It happened in America, and later in Canada, andor simply went over to the dark side, in the dark,
Australia. Men in chains from London arrived asyoung high princess Pocahantas found herself as
exiles in new lands against hostile odds, Londonone of those inside the walls of Fort Jamestown,
not caring whether they survived or not butand she created quite the scenes as the men
eager to clean the slums of east London. Whatworked in the fields and watched young
could possibly come of all this? The slums werePocahantas playfully perform cartwheels in her fur
filled with people worse off than the later storiesskins, which obviously lacked panties. The other
by Charles Dickens that began the reforms tofellows would call, come on John, she is your wife,
change all this inhumanity against their fellowshe is telling you.John had beads and trinkets and
people by the insulated leaders of their nations.Pocahantas wore her tribal body jewelry with
But, in 1608, when John Smith and his fellowpride, and exchanged some of hers with him.
English convicts from east London arrived, andPocahantas did accompany John Smith and the
worked sporadically between success and abjectEnglish on a ship back to London. Here, she was
failure in swampy low land bogs to create farms,overwhelmed by the vast excess sickly humanity
failing while fending off, and playing up to the localthat she recognized and realized were to follow,
natives. John Smith, as leader, young dynamic,weakening her people further. And this is a crucial
would go into the neighboring areas, passingpoint in the confirmation that vast America would
through areas controlled all by local custom byspeak English: when she was allowed to return
various tribes. The nearest chief found that hishome, her father the chief was already sick with
daughter, a teenager full of spirit, took a particularthe white man disease, did not hear her
liking to this visitor they all agreed to remain warycomments to push them back into the sea now:
of.there were so many white men, and so few of
Stories vary, depending on which side tells whatus human beings. A movie made that point
happened next. But whether she was kidnapped,centuries later.