Held captive by Indians
Subtitle: selected narratives, 1642-1836
By: edited by Richard VanDerBeets.
Contributors: VanDerBeets, Richard.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press; Univ Tennessee Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
Subjects: Indian captivities.; Captivity narratives.
Description: "Among the early white settlers, accounts of Indian captivities and massacres became America's first literature of catharsis - a means by which a population that disapproved of fiction and play-acting could satisfy its appetite for stories about other people's misfortunes. This collection of unaltered captivity narratives, first published in 1973, remains an invaluable source of information for historians and ethnologists, providing a fascinating glimpse of a vanished era."--BOOK JACKET. "For this edition, VanDerBeets has written a new preface discussing the proliferation of recent scholarship about captivity narratives, especially those written by women."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-369) and index.
Originally published: 1973.