Setting All the Captives Free
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Setting All the Captives Free

Capture, Adjustment, and Recollection in Allegheny Country

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Setting All the Captives Free

Capture, Adjustment, and Recollection in Allegheny Country

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Among the many upheavals in North America caused by the French and Indian War was a commonplace practice that affected the lives of thousands of men, women, and children: being taken captive by rival forces. Most previous studies of captivity in early America are content to generalize from a small selection of sources, often centuries apart. In Setting All the Captives Free, Ian Steele presents, from a mountain of data, the differences rather than generalities as well as how these differences show the variety of circumstances that affected captives' experiences. The product of a herculean effort to identify and analyze the captives taken on the Allegheny frontier during the era of the French and Indian War, Setting All the Captives Free is the most complete study of this topic. Steele explores genuine, doctored, and fictitious accounts in an innovative challenge to many prevailing assumptions and arguments, revealing that Indians demonstrated humanity and compassion by continuing to take numerous captives when their opponents took none, by adopting and converting captives into kin during the war, and by returning captives even though doing so was a humiliating act that betrayed their societies' values. A fascinating and comprehensive work by an acclaimed scholar, Setting All the Captives Free takes the study of the French and Indian War in America to an exciting new level.

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Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9780773589902
Topic
History
Subtopic
North American History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Setting All the Captives Free
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Illustrations, Maps, and Tables
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction
  9. Part 1: Captured in “Peacetime“
  10. Part 2: Captured in War
  11. Part 3: Captivity, Conversion, and Escape
  12. Part 4: Setting All the Captives Free
  13. Part 5: Afterwards and Afterwords
  14. Conclusion
  15. Tables
  16. Abbreviations
  17. Appendix: Named Captives Taken on the Allegheny Frontier, 1745–65
  18. Notes
  19. Index