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The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America

The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America

Demos, John

Paperback

Native American HistoryColonial Period (1600-1775)Regional: New England

ISBN10: 0679759611
ISBN13: 9780679759614
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Mar 28 1995
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.24 Depth: 8.04
Language: English
Awards: National Book Awards
Nominated for the National Book Award and winner of the Francis Parkman Prize.

The setting for this haunting and encyclopedically researched work of history is colonial Massachusetts, where English Puritans first endeavoured to civilize a savage native populace. There, in February 1704, a French and Indian war party descended on the village of Deerfield, abducting a Puritan minister and his children. Although John Williams was eventually released, his daughter horrified the family by staying with her captors and marrying a Mohawk husband.

Out of this incident, The Bancroft Prize-winning historian John Demos has constructed a gripping narrative that opens a window into North America where English, French, and Native Americans faced one another across gulfs of culture and belief, and sometimes crossed over.

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