An Unredeemed Captive

Author : John Demos
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307790699

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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.

Author : Clifton Johnson
Publisher : [S.l. : s.n.], 1897 (Holyoke, Mass. : Griffith, Axtell & Cady Company)
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Deerfield (Mass.)
ISBN : PRNC:32101020255236

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An Unredeemed Captive by Clifton Johnson Pdf

Author : Clifton Johnson
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0353609773

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An Unredeemed Captive: Being the Story of Eunice Williams, Who at the Age of Seven Years, Was Carried Away from Deerfield by the Indians in T by Clifton Johnson Pdf

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Author : John Demos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Deerfield (Mass.)
ISBN : 1582881928

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Describes the 1704 French and Indian attack on Deerfield, Massachusetts, and the capture of Puritan minister John Williams and his five children, one of whom remained with her captors despite numerous attempts to free her.

Author : John Demos
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385351669

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The Heathen School by John Demos Pdf

Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award The astonishing story of a unique missionary project—and the America it embodied—from award-winning historian John Demos. Near the start of the nineteenth century, as the newly established United States looked outward toward the wider world, a group of eminent Protestant ministers formed a grand scheme for gathering the rest of mankind into the redemptive fold of Christianity and “civilization.” Its core element was a special school for “heathen youth” drawn from all parts of the earth, including the Pacific Islands, China, India, and, increasingly, the native nations of North America. If all went well, graduates would return to join similar projects in their respective homelands. For some years, the school prospered, indeed became quite famous. However, when two Cherokee students courted and married local women, public resolve—and fundamental ideals—were put to a severe test. The Heathen School follows the progress, and the demise, of this first true melting pot through the lives of individual students: among them, Henry Obookiah, a young Hawaiian who ran away from home and worked as a seaman in the China Trade before ending up in New England; John Ridge, son of a powerful Cherokee chief and subsequently a leader in the process of Indian “removal”; and Elias Boudinot, editor of the first newspaper published by and for Native Americans. From its birth as a beacon of hope for universal “salvation,” the heathen school descends into bitter controversy, as American racial attitudes harden and intensify. Instead of encouraging reconciliation, the school exposes the limits of tolerance and sets off a chain of events that will culminate tragically in the Trail of Tears. In The Heathen School, John Demos marshals his deep empathy and feel for the textures of history to tell a moving story of families and communities—and to probe the very roots of American identity.

Author : Evan Haefeli,Kevin Sweeney
Publisher : Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015057641956

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Captors and Captives by Evan Haefeli,Kevin Sweeney Pdf

An account that explores the raid from the conflicting viewpoints of the raiders, both French-Canadian and Native American, and the Deerfield villagers.

Author : Karl Jacoby
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101159514

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Shadows at Dawn by Karl Jacoby Pdf

A masterful reconstruction of one of the worst Indian massacres in American history In April 1871, a group of Americans, Mexicans, and Tohono O?odham Indians surrounded an Apache village at dawn and murdered nearly 150 men, women, and children in their sleep. In the past century the attack, which came to be known as the Camp Grant Massacre, has largely faded from memory. Now, drawing on oral histories, contemporary newspaper reports, and the participants? own accounts, prize-winning author Karl Jacoby brings this perplexing incident and tumultuous era to life to paint a sweeping panorama of the American Southwest?a world far more complex, diverse, and morally ambiguous than the traditional portrayals of the Old West.

Author : John Demos
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781683351504

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Puritan Girl, Mohawk Girl by John Demos Pdf

In this riveting historical fiction narrative, National Book Award Finalist John Demos shares the story of a young Puritan girl and her life-changing experience with the Mohawk people. Inspired by Demos’s award-winning novel The Unredeemed Captive, Puritan Girl, Mohawk Girl will captivate a young audience, providing a Native American perspective rather than the Western one typically taught in the classroom. As the armed conflicts between the English colonies in North America and the French settlements raged in the 1700s, a young Puritan girl, Eunice Williams, is kidnapped by Mohawk people and taken to Canada. She is adopted into a new family, a new culture, and a new set of traditions that will define her life. As Eunice spends her days learning the Mohawk language and the roles of women and girls in the community, she gains a deeper understanding of her Mohawk family. Although her father and brother try to persuade Eunice to return to Massachusetts, she ultimately chooses to remain with her Mohawk family and settlement. Puritan Girl, Mohawk Girl offers a compelling and rich lesson that is sure to enchant young readers and those who want to deepen their understanding of Native American history.

Author : John Williams
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1015534872

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The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion by John Williams Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Clifton Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Deerfield (Mass.)
ISBN : OCLC:42941786

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An Unredeemed Captive by Clifton Johnson Pdf

Author : John Demos
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004-10-14
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780195174847

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Entertaining Satan by John Demos Pdf

In the first edition of the Bancroft Prize-winning Entertaining Satan, John Putnam Demos presented an entirely new perspective on American witchcraft. By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreated the world of New England during the witchcraft trials and brought to light fascinating information on the role of witchcraft in early American culture. Now Demos has revisited his original work and updated it to illustrate why these early Americans' strange views on witchcraft still matter to us today. He provides a new Preface that puts forth a broader overview of witchcraft and looks at its place around the world--from ancient times right up to the present.

Author : John Williams
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0469575107

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The Redeemed Captive: A Narrative of the Captivity, Sufferings, and Return by John Williams Pdf

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Author : John Demos
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780143116332

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The Enemy Within by John Demos Pdf

With the vision of a historian and the voice of a novelist, prize?winning author John Demos explores the social, cultural, and psychological roots of the scourge that is witch-hunting, both in the remote past and today. The Enemy Within chronicles the most prominent witch-hunts of the Western world?women and men who were targeted by suspicious neighbors and accused of committing horrific crimes by supernatural means?and shows how the fear of witchcraft has fueled recurrent cycles of accusation, persecution, and purging. A unique and fascinating book, it illumines the dark side of communities driven to rid themselves of perceived evil, no matter what the human cost.

Author : Evan Haefeli,Kevin Sweeney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015066788574

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Captive Histories by Evan Haefeli,Kevin Sweeney Pdf

This volume draws together an unusually rich body of original sources that tell the story of the 1704 French and Indian attack on Deerfield, Massachusetts, from different vantage points. Texts range from one of the most famous early American captivity narratives, John Williams' The Redeemed Captive, to the records of French soldiers and clerics, to little-known Abenaki and Mohawk stories of the raid that emerged out of their communities' oral traditions. Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney provide a general introduction, extensive annotations, and headnotes to each text. Although the oft-reprinted Redeemed Captive stands at the core of this collection, it is juxtaposed to less familiar accounts of captivity composed by other Deerfield residents: Quentin Stockwell, Daniel Belding, Joseph Petty, Joseph Kellogg, and the teen aged Stephen Williams. Presented in their original form, before clerical editors revised and embellished their content to highlight religious themes, these stories challenge long-standing assumptions about classic Puritan captivity narratives. equally noteworthy, offering a rare opportunity not only to compare captors' and captives' accounts of the same experiences, but to do so with reference to different Native oral traditions. Similarly, the memoirs of French military officers and an excerpt from the Jesuit Relations illuminate the motivations behind the attack and offer fresh insights into the complexities of French-Indian alliances. Taken together, the stories collected in this volume, framed by the editors' introduction and the assessments of two Native scholars, Taiaiake Alfred and Marge Bruchac, allow readers to reconstruct the history of the Deerfield raid from multiple points of view and, in so doing, to explore the interplay of culture and memory that shapes our understanding of the past.

Author : Ann M. Little
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300218213

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The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright by Ann M. Little Pdf

An eye-opening biography of a woman at the intersection of three distinct cultures in colonial America Born and raised in a New England garrison town, Esther Wheelwright (1696-1780) was captured by Wabanaki Indians at age seven. Among them, she became a Catholic and lived like any other young girl in the tribe. At age twelve, she was enrolled at a French-Canadian Ursuline convent, where she would spend the rest of her life, eventually becoming the order's only foreign-born mother superior. Among these three major cultures of colonial North America, Wheelwright's life was exceptional: border-crossing, multilingual, and multicultural. This meticulously researched book discovers her life through the communities of girls and women around her: the free and enslaved women who raised her in Wells, Maine; the Wabanaki women who cared for her, catechized her, and taught her to work as an Indian girl; the French-Canadian and Native girls who were her classmates in the Ursuline school; and the Ursuline nuns who led her to a religious life.