In Boston, for instance, the Puritan fathers banned Catholic priests and executed several Quakers between 1659 and 1661. Cotton Mather, the famed Puritan cleric, led the war cries against New England's Abenaki "savages" who had learned their prayers from the French Jesuits.
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In the 16th, 17th the "colonists" often spoke of the Natives as "naturals" or "savages". A slur was not implied, it simply meant that they had not reached the level of civilization that the colonists had.
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