William Bradford later wrote that Hunt intended to sell the captives as slaves in Spain.

For Tisquantum, the result was forced removal from everything familiar.

The distance alone is difficult to imagine.

He was taken from a coastal Native community in southern New England into the Atlantic shipping world of the early seventeenth century.

He was surrounded by a language he did not initially understand, aboard a vessel controlled by men who had deceived him.

The ocean crossing was not travel in any voluntary sense.

It was captivity.

This is the first major fact the simplified Thanksgiving story usually leaves out.

The English language skill that later seemed miraculous to the Pilgrims was born from violence.

Tisquantum did not study English because he predicted colonists would one day need his help.