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Availability:In StockContributor:John DemosPublish date:1995-03-28Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780679759614ISBN-10:679759611UPC:9780679759614Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, Indigenous Peoples in the AmericasBook Topic:Colonial Period (1600-1775), State & LocalAward:1994 National Book Awards Nominee - Nonfiction AwardSize:8.04 x 5.24 x 0.77 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SC5BYF4QQM

The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America

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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780679759614ISBN-10:679759611UPC:9780679759614Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, Indigenous Peoples in the AmericasBook Topic:Colonial Period (1600-1775), State & LocalAward:1994 National Book Awards Nominee - Nonfiction AwardSize:8.04 x 5.24 x 0.77 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SC5BYF4QQM
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.
Publisher: Vintage

Awards

🏆 1994 National Book Awards Nominee - Nonfiction Award

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John Demos

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