Acadia. a Lost Chapter in American History. says of these people: There have been instances in the annals of the past in which a country has been desolated in time of actual war and where the inhabitants were found in arms. but we defy all past history to produce a parallel case in which an unarmed and peaceable people have suffered to such an extent as did the French neutrals of Acadia. On September 10. 1755. Mr. President. more than 5.000 Acadian residents of Nova Scotia were driven from their homes. forced off their lands. and forceably deported from the country of their birth because they refused to abandon their religious belief. Forced to wrap themselves in blankets taken from smallpox hospitals. these people died by the hundreds. the survivors were cast ashore. without money or food. at ports in Maryland. Virginia.
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