The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America - Paperback

$22.00

The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America - Paperback

Name: The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America - Paperback
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SKU: 9780679759614
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by John Demos

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Book Overview

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.

ISBN	9780679759614
Author	John Demos
Publisher	Vintage
Genre	History
Format	Paperback
Published	March 1995
Language	ENG- English
Pages	336
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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