When Pocahontas, the daughter of a powerful Powhatan chief, converted to Christianity and married Englishman John Rolfe, their union and the birth of their son Thomas Rolfe appeared to have helped ...

Disney's Pocahontas was released nearly 30 years ago. While that may conjure nostalgia for many '90s kids, more than two and a half decades after its release, the animated film remains the most ...

Unlike Disney's love story, the real tale of Pocahontas and John Smith is defined by cruelty at the hands of not only Smith, but his entire merry troupe of settlers. In Disney, there was only one ...

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Pocahontas also met John Rolfe, a widower known for introducing tobacco as a cash crop to Virginia. Pocahontas becomes Lady Rebecca In 1614, Pocahontas converted to Christianity and was baptised ...

I thought that I would be able to turn to other people’s work on Pocahontas, [her husband] John Rolfe and John ... it’s not just Disney—with its 1995 animated film Pocahontas—that gets the ...

She married English explorer John Rolfe — there was no romance with Captain John Smith, as the Disney movie has it — and DeLeary says it was a "very controlling relationship".