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American Puritanism and the Defense of Mourning

by Mitchell R. Breitwieser

1990 223 pages eng

Mary White Rowlandwon, a New England Congregationalist minister's wife, was held captive by the Algonquin Indians during King Philip's War in 1676. Several years after she was ransomed and living among the British again she wrote a narrative of the captivity chronicling her experience in grief, love…

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