Made long after Pocahontas's death, the painting bears text (out of sight here) that mistakenly calls her the wife of Thomas, rather than John, Rolfe. Subtler, yet perhaps more meaningful ...

One of them was John Rolfe, a widowed settler and pioneer planter of a new strain of tobacco. He was besotted by Pocahontas and wrote that she showed a “great appearance of love to me.” ...

During her captivity at Jamestown, Pocahontas falls in love with an English settler, John Rolfe. Was this coincidence or was it strategy? It's hard to know. What we do know is that the marriage ...