This book is the first scholarly edition of the most popular Native American captivity narrative published in eighteenth-century Britain.
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This book is the first scholarly edition of the most popular Native American captivity narrative published in eighteenth-century Britain.
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This book is the first scholarly edition of the most popular Native American captivity narrative published in eighteenth-century Britain. In this fully annotated modern version, Timothy J. Shannon re-acquaints modern readers with the narrative and its Scottish protagonist. He tells the story of Peter Williamson, a native of Aberdeen, who claimed he was kidnapped into indentured servitude in North America, lived as a captive among Native Americans there, and then fought as a soldier in the Seven Years' War until he was taken prisoner by the French. After returning to Britain, Williamson peddled his tale while wearing Native American dress, and he eventually settled in Edinburgh.
About the Author
Timothy J. Shannon is Professor of History at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, US. He has received the Frank Watson Book Prize for Best Book in Scottish History, 2019, awarded by the Centre for Scottish Studies at the University of Guelph, for Indian Captive, Indian King: Peter Williamson in America and Britain. He is also the author of Iroquois Diplomacy on the Early American Frontier (New York: Viking Penguin, 2008) and Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire: The Albany Congress of 1754 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000).
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