Captive Histories English, French, and Native Narratives of the 1704 Deerfield Raid / edited by Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haefeli, Evan, 1969-

Sweeney, Kevin, 1950-

Series:

Native Americans of the Northeast.

Native Americans of the Northeast

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Wars--1600-1750.

Indians of North America.

Indian captivities--Massachusetts--Deerfield--History--Sources.

Indian captivities.

Abenaki Indians--History--Sources.

Abenaki Indians.

Abenaki Indians--Wars.

Deerfield (Mass.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Deerfield (Mass.).

United States--History--Queen Anne's War, 1702-1713.

United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume draws together an unusually rich body of original sources that tell the story of the 1704 French and Indian attack on Deerfield, Massachusetts, from different vantage points. Texts range from one of the most famous early American captivity narratives, John Williams's The Redeemed Captive, to the records of French soldiers and clerics, to little-known Abenaki and Mohawk stories of the raid that emerged out of their communities' oral traditions. Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney provide a general introduction, extensive annotations, and headnotes to each text. Although the oft-reprinted Redeemed Captive stands at the core of this collection, it is juxtaposed to less familiar accounts of captivity composed by other Deerfield residents: Quentin Stockwell, Daniel Belding, Joseph Petty, Joseph Kellogg, and the teenaged Stephen Williams. Presented in their original form, before clerical editors revised and embellished their content to highlight religious themes, these stories challenge long-standing assumptions about classic Puritan captivity narratives. The inclusion of three Abenaki and Mohawk narratives of the Deerfield raid is equally noteworthy, offering a rare opportunity not only to compare captors' and captives' accounts of the same experiences, but to do so with reference to different Native oral traditions. Similarly, the memoirs of French military officers and an excerpt from the Jesuit Relations illuminate the motivations behind the attack and offer fresh insights into the complexities of French-Indian alliances. Taken together, the stories collected in this volume, framed by the editors' introduction and the assessments of two Native scholars, Taiaiake Alfred and MargeBruchac, allow readers to reconstruct the history of the Deerfield raid from multiple points of view and, in so doing, to explore the interplay of culture and memory that shapes our understanding of the past.

Contents:

The setting

The raid

English narratives

French narratives

Mohawk narratives

Abenaki narratives.

Notes:

Documentary supplement to: Captors and captives. c2003.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-287) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Related Work:

Haefeli, Evan, 1969- Captors and captives.

ISBN:

9786611108892

9781613761021

1613761023

9781281108890

1281108898

OCLC:

630874351