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Captive Histories: English, French, And Native Narratives of the 1704 Deerfield Raid (Native Americans of the Northeast)...
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by Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney
Sales Rank: 221056
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Cover Type: Paperback with 298 pages
Published by: Univ. of Massachusetts Press July 10, 2006
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1558495436
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1558495432
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 1.1 pounds
Product Review
This outstanding collection of primary sources, each with an introduction placing the material in context stands on its own as an essential purchase for all academic libraries and should be strongly considered for acquisition by public libraries. --Library Journal (starred review)
With its careful footnotes and editing, 'Captive Histories' is a collection that can be used by professional historians. They will welcome the general and sectional introductions that also make the collection easy to use to the senior undergraduate. --H-France Review
Journal of British Studies, 2007
"The inclusion of several helpful maps throughout the text and useful tables in the appendix adds to an already impressive volume."
Reader Reviews
In 1704, a French and Indian coalition raided the frontier village of Deerfield, Massachusetts, destroying property, killing 50 of the inhabitants, and kidnapping 112. Forced to march in the dead of winter to Canada, many of the captives died along the way. Many survived, however, and later printed narratives of their ordeals. The most famous victims of this raid were members of the Williams family, and much has been written about them in subsequent centuries. In Captive Histories, Sweeney and Haefeli have gathered primary documents pertaining to the Williams survivors and those less famous. The difference in this book is the inclusion of multiple perspectives, including the Abenaki and Mohawk stories that have been passed from generation to generation via oral tradition. Letters, military reports, oral narratives,and memoires are collated and evaluated in such a way as to compare and contrast the English, French, and Native American points of view, and assess belief systems, traditions, the the reliability of the evidence. Captive Histories does not read like a historical novel; it is an important and valuable piece of research and socio/political/cultural commentary on one of colonial New England's most notorious events.
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