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“The Frontier Wars: Violence on Maine’s Frontier”The Frontier Wars were a series of six wars spanning nearly a century that devastated populations in Maine. From the dawn of European exploration in North America until the start of the Frontier Wars, Maine's rich natural resources were the source of tremendous profits for French traders and English settlers.However, land disputes, tensions about resource allocation and European wars combined to trigger intense strife and armed conflict between Maine's English. French and Native populations.To make matters worse, European monarchies saw the Province of Maine as a bargaining chip in their endless disputes. When war began in Europe, the bloodshed usually spilled over into the colonies, and when treaties were signed. Maine was one of many spoils of war.Many of the key players in the Salem witchcraft crisis were directly affected by Maine's Frontier Wars.* wScholarship suggests there was a correlation between the unresolved trauma suffered by survivors and the unrestrained hysteria aroused in Salem Village leadingto witchcraft accusations and a crisis of epic proportions.
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York Weekly
York, Maine, US
Wed, May 19, 2004
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