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Gnadenhutten Massacre

Moravian or Gnadenhutten Massacre. The use of a large Cooper's Mallet to crush in the skulls of prayer Christians is accurately depicted in this 19th century image. So too the scalping of the victims. The hideous murders by Pennsylvania settlers was rarely depicted in images; only two of the vicious act were drawn over the decades.

The Moravian or Gnadenhutten Massacre, March 8, 1782,  resulted in the vicious rape and murder of 96 Moravian Native Americans by Pennsylvania militia settlers in the closing months of the American Revolution. The converted Christian Lenni-Lenape and Mohicans were mostly old men and women and children. Innocent pacifists, because of their commitment to non-violence, they …

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