Captors and Captives

Captors and Captives
Title Captors and Captives PDF eBook
Author Evan Haefeli
Publisher Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press
Pages 408
Release 2003
Genre History
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An account that explores the raid from the conflicting viewpoints of the raiders, both French-Canadian and Native American, and the Deerfield villagers.

The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion

The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion
Title The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion PDF eBook
Author John Williams
Publisher
Pages 248
Release 1908
Genre Deerfield (Mass.)
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The Unredeemed Captive

The Unredeemed Captive
Title The Unredeemed Captive PDF eBook
Author John Demos
Publisher Vintage
Pages 338
Release 2011-05-04
Genre History
ISBN 030779069X

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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.

Our Oldest Enemy

Our Oldest Enemy
Title Our Oldest Enemy PDF eBook
Author John J. Miller
Publisher Doubleday Books
Pages 312
Release 2004
Genre Political Science
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New England Outpost

New England Outpost
Title New England Outpost PDF eBook
Author Richard I. Melvoin
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 372
Release 1992-02
Genre History
ISBN 9780393308082

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Deerfield's first half-century, starting in 1670, was a struggle to survive numerous Indian attacks. But more than a site of bloodshed, Deerfield offers an extraordinary opportunity to study larger issues of colonial war and society.

The Ransom of Mercy Carter

The Ransom of Mercy Carter
Title The Ransom of Mercy Carter PDF eBook
Author Caroline B. Cooney
Publisher Delacorte Press
Pages 258
Release 2011-08-09
Genre Young Adult Fiction
ISBN 0375899235

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Deerfield, Massachusetts is one of the most remote, and therefore dangerous, settlements in the English colonies. In 1704 an Indian tribe attacks the town, and Mercy Carter becomes separated from the rest of her family, some of whom do not survive. Mercy and hundreds of other settlers are herded together and ordered by the Indians to start walking. The grueling journey -- three hundred miles north to a Kahnawake Indian village in Canada -- takes more than 40 days. At first Mercy's only hope is that the English government in Boston will send ransom for her and the other white settlers. But days turn into months and Mercy, who has become a Kahnawake daughter, thinks less and less of ransom, of Deerfield, and even of her "English" family. She slowly discovers that the "savages" have traditions and family life that soon become her own, and Mercy begins to wonder: If ransom comes, will she take it?

The Deerfield Massacre

The Deerfield Massacre
Title The Deerfield Massacre PDF eBook
Author James L. Swanson
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 336
Release 2024-02-27
Genre History
ISBN 1501108166

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"Once it was one of the most famous events in early American history. Today, it has been nearly forgotten. In an obscure, two-hundred-year-old museum in a little village in western Massachusetts, there lies what once was the most revered but now totally forgotten relic from the history of early New England-the massive, tomahawk-scarred door that came to symbolize the notorious Deerfield Massacre. This impregnable barricade-known to early Americans as "The Old Indian Door"-constructed from double-thick planks of Massachusetts oak and studded with hand-wrought iron nails to repel the flailing tomahawk blades of several attacking native tribes, is the sole surviving artifact from the most dramatic moment in colonial American history: Leap Year, February 29, 1704, a cold, snowy night when hundreds of native Americans and their French allies swept down upon an isolated frontier outpost and ruthlessly slaughtered its inhabitants. The sacking of Deerfield led to one of the greatest sagas of adventure, survival, sacrifice, family, honor, and faith ever told in North America. 112 survivors, including their fearless minister, the Reverand John Williams, were captured and led on a 300-mile forced march north, into enemy territory in Canada. Any captive who faltered or became too weak to continue the journey-including Williams's own wife and one of his children-fell under the knife or tomahawk. Survivors of the march willed themselves to live and endured captivity. Ransomed by the King of England's royal governor of Massachusetts, the captives later returned home to Deerfield, rebuilt their town and, for the rest of their lives, told the incredible tale. The memoir of Rev. Williams, The Redeemed Captive, became the first bestselling book in American history and published a few years after his liberation, it remains a literary classic. The old Indian door is a touchstone that conjures up one of the most dramatic and inspiring stories of colonial America-and now, finally, this legendary event is brought to vivid life by popular historian James Swanson"--