Hello and welcome to Iroquois History and Legends.

I'm Andrew.

And I'm Caleb.

And welcome to episode 24, the Tuscarora War Part 2.

For those of you that are just joining us, maybe you have a specific interest in the Tuscarora War.

We'd recommend you go back

two episodes to meet the Tuscar Aurora. That goes over a lot of the backstory on what led up to

this war. And this episode, we will be concluding it. To give a quick recap, last time we left off

where we thought the war had finished, but somehow a bunch of Corey Indians got together

for a peace conference and a bunch of them were massacred and hundreds were taken back to South

Carolina as slaves. The problem with that is we don't really know who did it. There's three

different theories. One, it was that sneaky double-crosser, Barnwell from South Carolina, who after giving his

word to not betray them, totally betrayed them. The second choice was Governor Hyde and the North

Carolina government, who it may have been in their best interest to make sure that the war

picked back up again because they wanted to basically eradicate all the Native Americans

from the area,

therefore opening up all this great prime cleared land that people could gobble up and also get his rewards for participating in the war.

And then the third theory is it could have just been third-party slavers

that were just coming through from one of the other states to grab Indians and take them to sell to the West Indies.

The evidence seems to point towards Barnwell, however.

One loose end that we did not tie off from last time is whatever happened to Christopher

de Graffenried.

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