8. Pocahontas Was Baptized as a Christian
Pocahontas’ captors wanted her to become more “civilized”, so they forced her to convert to Christianity. During her Baptism, they gave her the new name of “Rebecca” A minister explained to Pocahontas how much better life was over in England, and he encouraged her to devote herself to the Bible and move to Europe.
In the western world, converting to Christianity was always one of the only ways that white people could be convinced that a “savage” was actually “civilized”. If they could understand spirituality and the concepts of a higher being, they thought that somehow many them more human.
Becoming Christian also helped white people relax, because they could think of Pocahontas as a “good” Christian woman who was going to abide by the laws of the 10 Commandments.