![]() With freedom to roam, time to enjoy the wilderness she’d previously found scary, and the friendship of several Indians, Mary felt guilty for enjoying herself and is devastated to be ransomed back to Puritan life. Though forced to perform labor she found distasteful, her life as a slave was very different from the way she and her fellow Puritans treated their own African and Indian slaves. She has no desire to live as a “savage” but, in time, comes to appreciate the Indian way of life. ![]() However Mary, now a slave of a female sachem, is expected to learn the ways of her Indian captives. As a Puritan, she had been conditioned to fear, hate, despise and be otherwise prejudiced towards all things Indian. In this extraordinary book, readers learn about Mary Rowlandson who was captured by a group of Indians after they raided her Massachusetts town in 1676. ![]() ![]() Includes “Author’s Note,” “A Conversation with Amy Belding Brown,” and “Questions for Discussion.” ![]()
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