Why Some Colonial Women Preferred Native American Men 🤯 #Shorts

Colonial women preferred Native American husbands over their own men. Mary Jemison was captured at 15 and married a Seneca man. She stayed married to him for 50 years and later wrote of the genuine kindness and respect she experienced in her marriage. She wasn't alone. Historians studying dozens of these accounts found something colonists never expected. Reports of violence toward captive women were rare, and many married willingly into their new communities. When treaties forced some of these women to return home, they refused to leave their new husbands. Oh, my goodness. Colonial society promised women protection, some of them found more of it living among the people they were taught to fear.