In this six-minute video posted on February 22, 2026 by Remnant Archives, we look at King Philip’s War (1675–1676) and the little-known colonial practice of shipping Native captives overseas. Using colonial records, shipping logs, and survivor letters, this video examines Pokanoket, Nipmuc, Pocumtuc, and Narragansett prisoners who were sent to Tangier and other ports, the scale of Native enslavement, and the erasure of Black Indigenous peoples from New England history.

King Philip’s War was not just a war between Indians and English. It was a war against black indigenous nations, the original inhabitants of Turtle Island, who had been here long before any Siberian migration. 

Tangier was under English control from 1661 to 1684. It was a garrison town on the North African coast, a strategic port facing the Mediterranean.

English colonial records and shipping logs confirm that captives from King Phillip’s war were sent there. A group of Indigenous prisoners wrote to the missionary John Elliot from Tangier begging to be returned home. They described their suffering, but they never came back.