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The Gnadenhutten Massacre

Back in the day on March 8th, 1782, peaceful Christianized native peoples were massacred in Ohio. With the American Revolutionary War being waged, some Delaware natives supported the British while others initially signed a treaty with the Americans. Those converted to Christianity in the Moravian missionary villages, including Gnadenhutten, maintained a non-hostile position of neutrality. Nevertheless, on the night of March 7th, one hundred and sixty militiamen under the command of Lieutenant Colonel David Williamson raided the village where the natives had returned after having been displaced. The local militiamen from Western Pennsylvania accused them of having participated in raids of their own. The natives rightly denied any involvement, but a majority of their would-be killers voted to execute them all the following morning.

Twenty-eight men, twenty-nine women and thirty-nine children were brutally murdered in all. Their corpses were burned as militiamen set fire to their village. Two survived the sadistic ordeal to live to tell what had happened that fateful day.

For Uprising, this is your truth professa’ saying it’s no mystery why they conceal our people’s history