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The Patuxent Plague: The Tragedy That Shaped Early America

Before the Pilgrims ever reached Plymouth, a deadly plague swept across New England and erased entire Indigenous nations. The Patuxet people were among the hardest hit—villages vanished, fields emptied, and once-powerful communities collapsed in just a few years.

This documentary explores the origins of the Patuxet Plague, how it spread, why the Wampanoag world fell into crisis, and how this catastrophe set the stage for the arrival of the Mayflower.

0:00 – Opening: The Land That Fell Silent
2:40 – New England Before the Plague
5:20 – The Patuxet: People of the Dawnland
8:10 – First Contacts with European Sailors
11:00 – Trade, Tension, and Hidden Dangers
14:00 – The Mysterious Sickness Begins
17:00 – How the Plague Spread Through the Coast
20:10 – The Collapse of Villages Across the Dawnland
23:00 – Wampanoag Responses: Fear and Survival
26:20 – Why Some Nations Fell and Others Endured
29:30 – Patuxet’s Final Days: A Community Lost
32:10 – A Land Suddenly Empty
35:00 – The Pilgrims Arrive at a Silent Shore
38:30 – Plymouth Built on Abandoned Land
41:00 – Tisquantum’s Return to a Dead Homeland
44:00 – How the Plague Shaped Early English Survival
46:40 – Wampanoag Strategy Under Massasoit
49:20 – The Alliance That Changed History
51:40 – Long-Term Effects on New England Power
54:20 – How the Plague Redrew the Map of America
56:40 – Disease as a Force of Colonization
59:00 – The Forgotten Story Behind “Empty” Land
1:01:00 – What the Patuxet Legacy Teaches Us
1:04:00 – Echoes of the Great Dying in American Memory
1:06:00 – Final Reflections & Closing

From early European contact to trade routes, disease patterns, and the dramatic reshaping of the Northeast, this is the forgotten event that changed the future of America long before colonization truly began.


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