'Too Furious': The Genocide of Connecticut’s Pequot Indians, 1636-1640
Dr. Benjamin Madley of the University of California, Los Angeles, will present his recent chapter, 'Too Furious': The Genocide of Connecticut's Pequot Indians, 1636-1640, from The Cambridge World History of Genocide (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
Event details of
'Too Furious': The Genocide of Connecticut’s Pequot Indians, 1636-1640
- Date
- 26 March 2025
- Time
- 11:00 -12:30
- Location
- Bushuis/Oost-Indisch Huis
- Room
- Kartini room (former 'VOC' room)
The 1636-1637 Pequot War and its aftermath were formative events in the making of New England and North America. His chapter will summarise the ongoing modern Pequot genocide debate, narrate the cataclysm in detail, provide quantitative estimates of its death toll, discuss dispersal and enslavement as a genocidal strategy, reevaluate colonists’ culpability, reconsider pre-genocide Pequot population estimates, and explain how this catastrophe constituted genocide under the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention. Dr. Madley is an historian of Native America, the United States, and colonialism in world history.
