Did you ever read a book that broke your heart?

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68. no doubt

here's an example from American history

"... word reached Boston of the fate of the river trader Joseph Tilly. The Pequots had captured him and had 'tied him to a stake, flayed his skin off, put hot embers between the flesh and the skin, cut off his fingers and toes, and made hatbands of them.' Somehow, in agony, he had survived for three days, yet, Winthrop proudly noted, 'he cried not in his torture.'" (The Barbarous Years p. 444)

"Inheriting six chiefdoms on the upper James and York rivers, Powhatan had expanded the area of his control by sheer conquest, defeating or intimidating one neighboring group after another, absorbing their warriors into his band, and turning his enlarged army on other neighbors who resisted his demands for tribute and subjection." (TBY p 27-28)

"...he (Powhatan) turned on the Chesapeakes with fury and obliterated the entire community. Still there was no peace." (TBY p 28)

Terrible what was done to the Chesapeakes, no?