
The Unredeemed Captive
A Family Story from Early America
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Narrated by:
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Grover Gardner
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By:
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John Demos
The setting for this haunting and encyclopedically researched work of history is colonial Massachusetts, where English Puritans first endeavored 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, Bancroft Prize-winning historian John Devos has constructed a gripping narrative that opens a window into a 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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I highly recommend this and then if you remotely enjoyed it, read “The Name of War,” by Jill Lenore, then read Mary Rowlandson’s narrative in her book after. Fascinating!
The narrator was good as well, particularly with his French pronunciations.
Great work and great subject to read up on.
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