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Author: Frances Roe Kestler Publisher: Vantage Press, Inc ISBN: 9780533152278 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 244
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After being kidnapped by Wampanoag Indians, Mary Rowlandson- a faithful Puritan wife and recent arrival to the New World- meets Metacom, the handsome Wampanoag chief. Drawn together by a strong and mutual attraction, Mary and Metacom soon discover a deep love against all odds. Based on actual events of the pre-Revolutionary War period, Mistress Mary heralds the return of the romance novel, and the Indian Captivity Narrative- a uniquely American literary genre.
Author: Frances Roe Kestler Publisher: Vantage Press, Inc ISBN: 9780533152278 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 244
Book Description
After being kidnapped by Wampanoag Indians, Mary Rowlandson- a faithful Puritan wife and recent arrival to the New World- meets Metacom, the handsome Wampanoag chief. Drawn together by a strong and mutual attraction, Mary and Metacom soon discover a deep love against all odds. Based on actual events of the pre-Revolutionary War period, Mistress Mary heralds the return of the romance novel, and the Indian Captivity Narrative- a uniquely American literary genre.
Author: Lea VanderVelde Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199710643 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 497
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Among the most infamous U.S. Supreme Court decisions is Dred Scott v. Sandford . Despite the case's signal importance as a turning point in America's history, the lives of the slave litigants have receded to the margins of the record, as conventional accounts have focused on the case's judges and lawyers. In telling the life of Harriet, Dred's wife and co-litigant in the case, this book provides a compensatory history to the generations of work that missed key sources only recently brought to light. Moreover, it gives insight into the reasons and ways that slaves used the courts to establish their freedom. A remarkable piece of historical detective work, Mrs. Dred Scott chronicles Harriet's life from her adolescence on the 1830s Minnesota-Wisconsin frontier, to slavery-era St. Louis, through the eleven years of legal wrangling that ended with the high court's notorious decision. The book not only recovers her story, but also reveals that Harriet may well have been the lynchpin in this pivotal episode in American legal history. Reconstructing Harriet Scott's life through innovative readings of journals, military records, court dockets, and even frontier store ledgers, VanderVelde offers a stunningly detailed account that is at once a rich portrait of slave life, an engrossing legal drama, and a provocative reassessment of a central event in U.S. constitutional history. More than a biography, the book is a deep social history that freshly illuminates some of the major issues confronting antebellum America, including the status of women, slaves, Free Blacks, and Native Americans.
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