John Demos
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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.
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Pub. Date
2017.
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IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
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In 1704, Mohawk Indians attack the frontier village of Deerfield, Massachusetts, kidnapping and marching over 100 residents, including seven-year-old Eunice Williams, to Canada where she is eventually adopted into a Mohawk family and remains there willingly for the rest of her life. Based on a true story.
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[2014]
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"The astonishing story of a unique missionary project--and the America it embodied--from award-winning historian John Demos. Near the start of the nineteenth century, as the newly established United States looked outward toward the wider world, a group of eminent Protestant ministers formed a grand scheme for gathering the rest of mankind into the redemptive fold of Christianity and 'civilization.' Its core element was a special school for 'heathen...
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Pub. Date
c1982
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Witchcraft and community life, witchcraft and individual psychology, witchcraft as a part of everyday experience: such are the organizing themes for this new treatment of an old and fascinating subject in American history. What kind of people became involved in witchcraft--either as victim or as accuser? The search for an answer to this question proves to be a means of lighting up the very center of premodern experience.