Rowlandson, Mary

The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: with Related Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)

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Religious devotion in Indian captivity

The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: with Related Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
Mary Rowlandson
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History Facts , $$ Making Fiction or a Religious Missionary?.......2005-01-26

After reading books such as The Name of War by Jill Lepore and Dawnland Encounters by Colin Callaway, I am a bit skeptical of Mary's intentions for writing this piece.

The name of war has a section of how much press that King Philip's War received. It was astounding. In only a two-year period, there were 18+ books written on the war. Everyone with a press was trying to cash in with Europe so interested in the outcome.

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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, this volume presents accounts by early settlers held captive by Native Americans (Mary Rowlandson, John Smith), narratives by African American slaves (Olaudah Equiano, John Marrant), and others. Collected with the real-life accounts are two captivity poems by Lucy Terry and John Rolling Ridge, and several popular tales and legends on the subject.</p>

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Subjective stories of "Captivity" in American Life.......2006-01-08

I read this book as part of a English course at UC Berkeley. The two stories that we were 'assigned' were the Rowlandson & Equiano stories. Mary Rowlandson's tale of being the penultimate Puritan Christian who was taken by "savage Indians" is about as far from objectivity as any memoir from George W Bush. Over and over again, she reminds the reader how horrible it was for her to be kidnapped and put to work among the Indians and how great God was to put her in such a challenge. If you are not a hard-lined Christian, you will be hard-pressed to like her narrative as it is far from truth-ful and only expunges stereotypes. The other main story is by Equiano and it is a much better "read" than Rowlandson's tale. However, when one reads Equiano, they get a sense of the veracity of the situation. But most of what Equiano wrote was not truthful at all. But he, as an African-American former slave, is trying to appeal to the slave-holding audience of white America. Either way, this book is so-so. I would never consider it a work of great literary value.

Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

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Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
Mary White Rowlandson
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A People and a Nation

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In February 1676, during King Philip's War, the frontier village of Lancaster, Massachusetts, was attacked by a party of Nipmuck Indians and completely destroyed. As relief from Concord approached, the attackers withdrew, taking with them 24 captives, including Mrs. Mary Rowlandson and her three children.
For almost three months the little family was forced to live with their captors and endure exposure to a New England winter.The youngest child, who had been injured during the attack, failed to survive. Eventually ransom was paid and the family released.
Mrs. Rowlandson's account of her experience was published in 1682. It became a"best-seller" of its day and created a new literary genre, the captivity narrative. Such accounts were in part responsible for the mistrust and hatred of the Indians that plagued the country for centuries. It is also the first publication in English by a woman in the New World.

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ringtone88.com spiritual strong woman that never lost her hope to be delivered by her merciful God, citing: 'Thus saith the Lord, Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thy eyes from tears, for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the Lord, and they shall come again from the Land of the enemy' (p.45). She believed her suffering was coming to pass at the end of the road. She had, as all humans do, times of doubt and sadness, but finally she always found refuge in the Word of God, the Bible, which I have no doubt that for her in those terrible days was like living a 'practical seminary' where she studied the scriptures as never before; a divine sign and purpose for her, taking in to account how under such hardship surrounded by pagans, she could amazingly conserve that Bible during this dangerous journey in the jungle as a captive.
She was finally experiencing that Valley of Shadow as a puritan witness redeemed back to life also as a resurrectional sign in her life.

This was the most popular personal account of its day- why did Puritans want to read this narrative? What sort of Puritan values or beliefs does this narrative promote?

I found it peculiar to read how being a Christian herself, she does not mention the passion of Christ and her symbolic suffering as a puritan for the Lord's cause among the Native Americans. The puritans were impacted throughout this narrative because she compared herself to the times of the Old Testament where the Jewish nation was brought out of Egypt and experienced hardship in a dusty dessert for 40 years trying to reach, as a chosen nation, the promised land, believing herself that God wanted her to be submitted under such suffering to be greatly rewarded later on.

The same way this narrative was important for the puritans because the image of Mary Rowlandson represented the messianic purpose of 'puritan chosen people' which came through hardships from Europe into the New-promised-English-land with that earthly utopian idea of 'a city over a hill'.
As the chosen ones to 'purify' the Gospel, the puritans saw in this narrative an opportunity to show off the infinite mercy of our Creator even to the Native-Americans; coming undoubtedly inside a 'puritan vessel' full of hope, perseverance and faith that indeed redeem.

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a first person narrative is one of the best kind of books.......2005-06-09

Because it is a first hand account-and who better to tell the story than the person who lived through it?
That's why I take offense at the reviewer who said this book is too one-sided. Hello? Would YOU care to live through a New England winter without any modern conveniences? Would YOU like to be taken captive by hostile savages and have your life distrupted and your child die as a result? Perhaps it's not politically correct these days to see indians as savages but excuse me-they raped women and killed children. They burned homes and tortured men. Like it or not that's how many of them were back then. (Notice I didn't say ALL so don't get your dander up.)
This book is a look at a person's life and her perspective on it. How she dealt with a tragedy of unknown modern proportions. How she lived through it and what she learned from it.
Fascinating stuff, in my opinion.

Very One sided.......2004-06-24

I loved all of this witches acounts of Wheetamoo, greatest sachem ever! but she was sooooooo one sided! I hated how she talked about the Sachem Wheetamoo. I wish that she was more two-sided and it is NOT understandable of her harsh words tword Wheetamoo or any of the FRIENDLY indians The author is a mean witch with a b!

First book published by American woman.......2004-02-27

We, Chapman Billies, Inc. published this edition and Trafalgar Square distributed it for us at first. It has never been out of stock. Of course we think it should get 5 stars, otherwise we/I would not have put our money behind it. Mrs. Rowlandson tells of the attack on her village, the wounding of her youngest child, their being kidnapped,forced to go with her captors for several months in a New England winter, and watch her child die before being ransomed. To expect her to be an enlightened 21st century woman as she tells her story is to be, Ugh, un-brave.

The Captive: The True Story of the Captivity of Mrs Mary Rowlandson Among the Indians and God's Faithfulness to Her in Her Time of Trial

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The Captive: The True Story of the Captivity of Mrs Mary Rowlandson Among the Indians and God's Faithfulness to Her in Her Time of Trial
Mary White Rowlandson
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The Account of Mary Rowlandson and Other Indian Captivity Narratives (Dover Books on Americana)

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Among the most celebrated of such documents, Rowlandson's account of her captivity by the Narragansett Indians in 1676 details her hardships and suffering, but also includes invaluable observations on Native American life. Also included are 3 other famous narratives of captivity among the Delawares, the Iroquois, and the Indians of the Allegheny.

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ringtone88.com ouses. As the inhabitants came out, the warriors attacked them. Mrs. Rowlandson relates, "Then I took Children (and one of my sisters, hers) to go forth and leave the house: but as soon as we came to the dore and appeared, the Indians shot so thick that the bulletts rattled against the House, as if one had taken an handfull of stones and threw them, so that we were fain to give back." (p. 119) She saw her brother-in-law fall, dead from wounds; her nephew, killed, and her sister shot. All around her was carnage. She was shot through her side and the child she carried in her arms was struck by the same bullet. There were 13 killed and 24 taken captive. According to Mary Rowlandson's account, "I had often before this said, that if the Indians should come, I should chuse rather to be killed by them then taken alive but when it came to the tryal my mind changed; their glittering weapons so daunted my spirit, that I chose rather to go along ... then that moment to end my days ... ." (p. 121) Mary Rowlandson published her experiences with the Amerindians in 1682. Her memoir commanded intense interest in Great Britain as well as in the colonies for its portrayal of the daily danger of life in the colonies.

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