Liberty's captives
Subtitle: narratives of confinement in the print culture of the early republic : the jefferson city editorial project
By: editor, Daniel E. Williams ; associate editors, Christina Riley Brown ... [et al.] ; consulting editor, Boyd Childress ; technical consultant, Austin Lingerfelt.
Contributors: Williams, Daniel E.; Brown, Christina Riley.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780820328003; 9780820328010
Subjects: Captivity narratives -- United States; American prose literature -- 1783-1850; American prose literature -- Revolutionary period, 1775-1783
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A narrative of the capture and treatment of John Dodge, by the English at Detroit (1779); title: A surprising account, of the captivity and escape of Philip M'Donald, and Alexander M'Leod, of Virginia, from the Chickkemogga indians (1786); title: A very surprising narrative of a young woman, who was discovered in a rocky cave (1787); title: Narrative of the remarkable occurrences, in the life of John Blatchford of Cape-Ann (1788); title: A narrative of the captivity and sufferings of Mr. Ebenezer Fletcher, of Newipswich, who was; title: taken prisoner by the British (1798); title: A narrative of the life and adventures of Venture, a native of Africa : but a resident above sixty years in the United States of America (1798); title: History of the captivity and sufferings of Mrs. Maria Martin, who was six years a slave in Algiers (1806); title: The trial of Amos Broad and his wife; title: for assaulting and beating Betty, a slave, and her little female child Sarah (1809); title: The narrative of John Thomson, one of the persons intended to be massacred (1812); title: Years' history, of the life and sufferings of James M'Lean, an impressed American citizen and seaman (1814); title: A narrative of the captivity and sufferings of John Turner; title: among the Ladrones (1814); title: Life and adventures of Joshua Penny; title: who was impressed into the British service (1815); title: An affecting account of the tragical death of Major Swan, and of the captivity of Mrs. Swan and infant child, by the savages (1815); title: A concise narrative of the barbarous treatment experienced by American prisoners in England and the West-Indies (1816); title: An affecting narrative of the captivity and sufferings of Thomas Nicholson; title: who was six years a prisoner among the Algerines (1816); title: A journal of the shipwreck and sufferings of Daniel Foss (1816); title: Narrative of the tragical death of Mr. Darius Barber, and his seven children, who were inhumanly butchered by the Indians (1818).