American Literature / Unit 3 AML 0214 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Pocahontas: The Story, the Sources, and the Doubt
Captions available
The idea
On an exploring trek Smith was captured by people ruled by Powhatan, whose daughter Pocahontas, the anchor says, saved him from execution. The episode comes from Smith's own later account, written when both Powhatan and his daughter were dead, and a reader should know whose telling it is.
In practice
One man's story about his own rescue.
Where people slip
The rescued man is the source.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Something wrong in this lesson? Flag it