True Stories of New England Captives

True Stories of New England Captives
Author: C. Alice Baker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2015-07-18
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781331708520

Excerpt from True Stories of New England Captives: Carried to Canada, During the Old French and Indian Wars As often as I have read in the annals of the early settlers of New England the pathetic words, "Carried captive to Canada whence they came not back," I have longed to know the fate of the captives. The wish has become a purpose, and I have taken upon myself a mission to open the door for their return. It is just fifty years since that indefatigable Antiquary, Mr. Samuel G. Drake, published at Boston his "Tragedies of the Wilderness." I offer these narratives as a modest sequel to the work of my illustrious predecessor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Capturing Women

Capturing Women
Author: Sarah Carter
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780773516564

"A study of popular representations of women and the creation of hierarchies of race and gender in the Canadian Prairies in the late 1800s, Capturing Women fits into a growing body of literature on the question of women, race, and imperialism. Sarah Carter argues that images of Native and European women were created and manipulated to establish boundaries between Native peoples and white settlers and to justify repressive measures against the Native population." --

The Unredeemed Captive

The Unredeemed Captive
Author: John Demos
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2011-05-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 030779069X

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 Devos has constructed a gripping narrative that opens a window into North America where English, French, and Native Americans faced one another across gilfs of culture and belief, and sometimes crossed over.

The Captors' Narrative

The Captors' Narrative
Author: William Henry Foster
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801440595

The author reconstructs the lived experience of both captors and captives to show that captivity was always intertwined with gender struggles, providing a novel perspective on the struggles over female authority pervasive in colonial America.

True Stories of New England Captives

True Stories of New England Captives
Author: C. Alice Baker
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2015-02-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781508452119

This is a compilation of accounts of colonists being captured by Native Americans during the French & Indian War.

Indian Captive

Indian Captive
Author: Lois Lenski
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2011-12-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1453227520

A Newbery Honor book inspired by the true story of a girl captured by a Shawnee war party in Colonial America and traded to a Seneca tribe. When twelve-year-old Mary Jemison and her family are captured by Shawnee raiders, she’s sure they’ll all be killed. Instead, Mary is separated from her siblings and traded to two Seneca sisters, who adopt her and make her one of their own. Mary misses her home, but the tribe is kind to her. She learns to plant crops, make clay pots, and sew moccasins, just as the other members do. Slowly, Mary realizes that the Indians are not the monsters she believed them to be. When Mary is given the chance to return to her world, will she want to leave the tribe that has become her family? This Newbery Honor book is based on the true story of Mary Jemison, the pioneer known as the “White Woman of the Genesee.” This ebook features an illustrated biography of Lois Lenski including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.