In 1622, Opechancanough coordinated a multinational military assault across fifty miles of the Virginia James River in a single morning — with no written orders, no telegraph, and no standing army. 347 English colonists died before noon.

He had been watching them for fifteen years.

Opechancanough is Courtney's (Sisi's) 11th great-grandfather — and his authority to lead came entirely through his mother, Amopotuske, her 12th great-grandmother from Episode 1.

This is Season 1, Episode 2 of The Free Man's Line — the story of the Powhatan war chief who was the direct ancestor of Manley Ray Bell's family, and whose authority to lead came entirely through his mother, Amopotuske, the woman we met in Episode 1.

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