Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags is a play written by Massachusetts playwright John Augustus Stone reinterpreting King Philip's War, a colonial war in New England. The play debuted on December
Edwin Forrest as Metamora in 1861
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King Philip's War was a colonial war in which a coalition of Algonquian tribes of the Northeastern Woodlands—the Wampanoags, the Pocomtucs, the Nipmucs, and the Narragansetts—fought against the Purita
Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags
…Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags is a play written by Massachusetts playwright John Augustus Stone reinterpreting King Philip's War (1675–78), a colonial war in New England. The play debuted on December 15, 1829, at the Park Theater in New York City. It starred Shakespearean actor…
Metacom (c. 1638–1676), also known as King Philip, chief Sachem of the Wampanoag and leader of the campaign against the English colonists, as imagined by Paul Revere in 1772.
The Puritan colonists sought to convert the indigenous population to Christianity. The English missionary John Eliot led an effort to translate the Bible into Algonquian, publishing the Old Testament in 1661 and the full Eliot Indian Bible in 1663.
"King Philip's Seat", a meeting place on Mount Hope in Bristol, Rhode Island.
Site of "Nine Men's Misery" in Cumberland, Rhode Island, where Captain Pierce's troops were tortured to death