American Captivity Narratives by Paul Lauter, Mary Rowlandson, Olaudah Equiano, John Marrant, Lucy Terry, Gordon M. Sayre, John Rolling Ridge

American Captivity Narratives

Paul Lauter, Mary Rowlandson, Olaudah Equiano, John Marrant, Lucy Terry, Gordon M. Sayre, John Rolling Ridge

464 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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This volume collects a wide variety of works from a uniquely American literary tradition, the captivity narrative. Beginning with an excerpt from Hans Staden's The True History of His Captivity, which influenced the American captivity narrative, t...

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