Actually, according to the Jamestown Narratives, and what I am reading on 
the Pennsylvania Colony and its relationship to the Indians, "saving" the 
Indians had little to do with the goals of the colonies.

Jamestown came to seek riches. When they discovered the riches in tobacco, 
they wanted land. The Pennsylvania colonists came specifically for land. 
Land, was the most desired commodity. The Natives were on the land, so the 
notion of calling them savages, marginalizing them, making them slaves in 
accordance with the Old Testament commands, and feebly trying to 
Christianize them (then totally ignoring those who converted when removal 
was the goal), were the initiatives involved. I'm not as knowledgeable on 
the Massachusetts colony, but again, the goal seems to have been to secure 
land, with a feeble intent to Christianize the Indians, again with the 
colonists ignoring the Christians among the Indians when removal became the 
goal.

As soon as the Indians posed any resistance to the colonists intents, the 
saying "The only good Indian is a dead Indian" spread throughout the colony, 
whichever one it was.

There seems to be little distinction among the Puritan colonists in 
Massachusetts, the Quaker colonists in Pennsylvania, and the Corporate 
colonists in Virginia. They all seemed to follow the same agenda. The 
Indians as slaves had one advantage over the African slaves - they knew the 
lay of the land better than their owners and could escape almost at will. 
The Africans did not know their way around and were stuck in place.

Anne
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