In his instance, it is the combination of Christianity and literacy that have fatal consequences. He is no longer an Indian nor is he an Englishman he is somewhere in the middle. Sassamon betrays King Philip, his sachem, and warns the English that Philip is planning to attack. He expects protection or good faith for his information. Instead he is rejected and ignored by the English and then disappears until he is found dead. The colonists held a trial and convicted three of Philip’s counselors for the murder of Sassamon. His alleged murderers were put to death at Plymouth and the war began a few days later when the Wampanoag began attacking …show more content…
Both sides practiced methods that were far outside of what their cultures considered restraint in warfare. They practiced torture and mutilation of the dead, killed women and children, and tortured captives with unspeakable cruelties. This war caused incredible losses on both sides, those endured by the Natives were far greater, but the English almost abandoned the experiment of the City on the Hill. Puritans believed the war was a rebuke from God for the sins they had committed since arriving in the new world, they considered Philip to be a savage villain and so depicted him as such in their writings, and when writing they ignored Indian explanations for why the war and during the fighting no Indian was safe not even the Christian Indians they had worked so hard to