The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America

The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America

by John Demos
The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America

The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America

by John Demos

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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 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780307790699
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 05/04/2011
Sold by: Random House
Format: eBook
Pages: 336
Sales rank: 348,167
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

John Putnam Demos is Samuel Knight Professor of History at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony and Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England.
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