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| Summary: | Mary Rowlandson's The Sovereignty and Goodness of God , first published in 1682, is an English Puritan woman's account of her captivity among Native Americans during Metacom's War (1675-76) in southeastern New England. In this volume, 17 related documents support Rowlandson's text, which is reprinted from the earliest surviving edition of the narrative.
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| Physical Description: | xv, 184 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-176) and index. |
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| ISBN: | 0312111517 |
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| Author Notes: | Neal Salisbury (Ph. D., University of California, Los Angeles) is a professor of history at Smith College and specializes in the history of American Indians and colonial New England. He is author of Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England, 1500-1643 (1982) and The Indians of New England: A Critical Bibliography (1982) and is coauthor of The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People (1990). His most recent article, "The Indians' Old World: Native Americans and the Coming of Europeans," appeared in the July 1996 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly .
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