Table of Contents

1. Miscegenation and the Pocahontas narrative in colonial and federalist America; 2. The Pocahontas narrative in post-Revolution America; 3. The Pocahontas narrative in the era of the romantic Indian; 4. John Gadsby Chapman's Baptism of Pocahontas; 5. The figure of Pocahontas in sectionalist propaganda; Index.

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Robert S. Tilton reflects on the ways in which the myth of Pocahontas was exploded, exploited, and ultimately made to rationalise dangerous preconceptions about the native American tradition.