Liberty's captives : narratives of confinement in the print culture of the early republic : the Jefferson City Editorial Project / editor, Daniel E. Williams ; associate editors, Christina Riley Brown ... [and others] ; consulting editor, Boyd Childress ; technical consultant, Austin Lingerfelt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Williams, Daniel E., 1951-

Brown, Christina Riley.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Captivity narratives--United States.

Captivity narratives.

American prose literature--1783-1850.

American prose literature.

American prose literature--Revolutionary period, 1775-1783.

United States.

Physical Description:

xi, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2006]

Contents:

A narrative of the capture and treatment of John Dodge, by the English at Detroit (1779)

A surprising account, of the captivity and escape of Philip M'Donald, and Alexander M'Leod, of Virginia, from the Chickkemogga indians (1786)

A very surprising narrative of a young woman, who was discovered in a rocky cave (1787)

Narrative of the remarkable occurrences, in the life of John Blatchford of Cape-Ann (1788)

A narrative of the captivity and sufferings of Mr. Ebenezer Fletcher, of Newipswich, who was

taken prisoner by the British (1798)

A narrative of the life and adventures of Venture, a native of Africa : but a resident above sixty years in the United States of America (1798)

History of the captivity and sufferings of Mrs. Maria Martin, who was six years a slave in Algiers (1806)

The trial of Amos Broad and his wife

for assaulting and beating Betty, a slave, and her little female child Sarah (1809)

The narrative of John Thomson, one of the persons intended to be massacred (1812)

Seventeen years' history, of the life and sufferings of James M'Lean, an impressed American citizen and seaman (1814)

A narrative of the captivity and sufferings of John Turner

among the Ladrones (1814)

The life and adventures of Joshua Penny

who was impressed into the British service (1815)

An affecting account of the tragical death of Major Swan, and of the captivity of Mrs. Swan and infant child, by the savages (1815)

A concise narrative of the barbarous treatment experienced by American prisoners in England and the West-Indies (1816)

An affecting narrative of the captivity and sufferings of Thomas Nicholson

who was six years a prisoner among the Algerines (1816)

A journal of the shipwreck and sufferings of Daniel Foss (1816)

Narrative of the tragical death of Mr. Darius Barber, and his seven children, who were inhumanly butchered by the Indians (1818).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-318) and index.

ISBN:

0820328006

0820328014

OCLC:

62090729

Publisher Number:

9780820328003

9780820328010