Note [537 — Chapter V
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[537] Ellis and Morris, King Philip’s War, p. 287; Baylies, op. cit., ii, pt. iii, p. 190. In at least one instance, provision against their being sold as slaves was made by the Indians in the terms of their surrender. When the squaw-sachem, Awanthonks, deserted the cause of Philip and allied herself with the English, she obtained a promise from the Plymouth government “that the life of every man, woman and child shall be spared, and none shall ever be sold as slaves, or transported from their native soil.” Hough, op. cit., p. 20; Drake, The Book of the Indians, ninth edition, p. 252; Freeman, Civilization and Barbarism, p. 129.