Chapter 1: Early American Literature to 1700 - John Williams (1664-1729)
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The Redeemed Captive is the account of John Williams's capture at Deerfield, Mass., the long march to Canada, and his two and a half years of captivity there.
Primary Work
The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion, 1707, 1966.
Demos, John. The unredeemed captive : a family story from early America. NY: Vintage Books, 1995, 1994. E197 .D46
Baum, Rosalie M. "John Williams's Captivity Narrative: A Consideration of Normative Ethnicity." A Mixed Race: Ethnicity in Early America. Ed. Frank Shuffelton. NY: Oxford UP, 1993. 56-76.
Clark, Edward W. "A Modernized Text and a Critical Text of John Williams' The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion (1707)." DAI 33 (1973): 3578A
- - -. The Redeemed Captive. Amherst: U of Massachusettes P, 1976.
Haefeli, Evan, and Kevin Sweeney. "Revisiting The Redeemed Captive: New Perspectives on the 1704 Attack on Deerfield." William and Mary Quarterly 52.1 (Jan 1995): 3-46.
MLA Style Citation of this Web Page:
Reuben, Paul P. "Chapter 1: Early American Literature to1700 - John Williams." PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide. WWW URL: http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap1/williams_john.html (provide page date or date of your login).
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