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Author Rowlandson, Mary White, approximately 1635-1711.

Uniform Title Soveraignty & goodness of God
Title The sovereignty and goodness of God : together with the faithfulness of his promises displayed : being a narrative of the captivity and restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson and related documents / edited with an introduction by Neal Salisbury.

Publication Info. Boston : Bedford Books, [1997]
©1997

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection J Schick  973.24 R796Br 1997  35902004333049    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xv, 184 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Series The Bedford series in history and culture
Bedford series in history and culture.
Note Originally published: Cambridge : Printed by Samuel Green, 1682.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-176) and index.
Contents Introduction. Mary Rowlandson and her removes. The setting: Metacom's War (1675-1676) -- Mary Rowlandson and her narrative -- The great migration -- The Anglo-Indian frontier -- A world upended -- Reordering and remembering -- Part 2. The document. The preface to the reader -- A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson -- Part 3. Related documents. Metacom on the causes of Anglo-Indian War -- The redemption of Mary Rowlandson -- Postwar justice -- Joseph Rowlandson's final sermon -- The captivity of Hannah Dustin -- Appendices. A Rowlandson chronology -- Questions for consideration.
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. - Publisher.
Subject Rowlandson, Mary White, approximately 1635-1711.
Rowlandson, Mary White, approximately 1635-1711 (OCoLC)fst01844865
King Philip's War (1675-1676) (OCoLC)fst00987655
Indian captivities -- Massachusetts.
Indians of North America -- Massachusetts -- Biography.
Indians of North America -- Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.
King Philip's War, 1675-1676.
Indian captivities. (OCoLC)fst00969063
Indians of North America. (OCoLC)fst00969633
Indians of North America -- Colonial period. (OCoLC)fst01907009
Massachusetts. (OCoLC)fst01204307
Chronological Term 1600-1775
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Salisbury, Neal, editor.
ISBN 0312111517
9780312111519

 
    
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