... the dwellings. Women were also given the unique freedom among some tribes of torture. They would tie their captives to poles in the middle of camps and slowly torture them to death. They sang war songs and teased and taunted their captives in order to show that ... through natural increase. They did not need continued migration from Europe to sustain or expand their settlements, in part because New England and the middle colonies were very healthy places to live by seventeenth-century standards. Thus marriages were long and fertility rates higher than in either England or ... the Chesap...

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