John Demos recounts the night of the Deerfield Massacre through the perspective of a Puritan minister named John Williams. The Deerfield massacre consisted of the brutal killing of innocent families by a savage Indian invasion led by the French. The French allied with the Indians in an attempt to attack the English’s vulnerable American colonials. France used the American colonials as a way to indirectly undermine their imperial competition, England.
The validity of Demos’s claim of the Indian’s brutality and savagery was questionable because the main goal of the Indians was to capture the leaders of the town not to slaughter everyone in the town. (46) Also, the Indians gave Mr. Williams and his family the opportunity to dress before leaving
