Prevents a settlers-only victim narrative and connects whiskey history to anti-Indigenous violence and impunity.
The massacre appears in Slaughter's account of frontier violence, official failure, settler grievance, and political memory.
Pennsylvania militiamen murdered ninety-six Christian Indians at Gnadenhutten, including women and children; participants escaped punishment, and some later appeared among Whiskey Rebellion actors.
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Chapter 5
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Pennsylvania militiamen murdered ninety-six Christian Indians at Gnadenhutten, including women and children; participants escaped punishment, and some later appeared among Whiskey Rebellion actors.
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Start: 83
End: 86
Section: Chapter 5
The massacre appears in Slaughter's account of frontier violence, official failure, settler grievance, and political memory.
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Prevents a settlers-only victim narrative and connects whiskey history to anti-Indigenous violence and impunity.
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Paraphrase checked against searchable text and rendered PDF sheets 83–86 on 2026-08-27.