In the relatively peaceful year of 1617, the colonists' enthusiasm for inclusion of Indians within the Anglican Church peaked. Flushed with the triumph of Pocahontas's Anglican baptism and subsequent journey to England, Anglo-Virginians planned a system of schools for Indians-hoping to facilitate similar cultural and religious transformations. One generous English donor to the proposed schools suggested
that Indian children might be trained until the age of twenty-one, then given the same liberties as Englishmen. Opechancanough, powerful heir to the Powhatan Confederacy and kinsman of
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