The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America
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The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America
Author: John Demos
Publisher: Vintage
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 336
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Nominated for the National Book Award, this book is set in colonial Massachusetts where, in 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.
Background Information
The Puritans were highly religious people who dissented from the Church of England and sought freedom of worship in the New World.
