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A 4 page review of this narrative first published in 1682 after the authors experience as a captive of the Narragansett, Native Americans residing in New England during the initial colonial intrusions there. The contention is presented that, while the trauma endured by Rowlandson was indeed horrific, the Native actions were in themselves the result of the colonial intrusions into their land and, in particular, the Puritan view of them as inferior beings. Bibliography lists two sources.
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Mary Rowlandsons "A Narrative of the Captivity & Removal of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson" was first published in 1682 under the rather cumbersome 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, Commended by Her, to All That Desires to
Know the Lords Doings to, and Dealings With Her, Especially to Her Dear Children and Relations. The Second Addition Corrected and Amended. Written by Her Own Hand for Her Private
Use, and Now Made Public at the Earnest Desire of Some Friends, and for the Benefit of the Afflicted". It is the first person account of Rowlandsons experiences as
a captive of the Narragansett, Native Americans residing in New England during the initial colonial intrusions there. Along with twenty-three other Puritans, Rowlandson was taken captive as part of
the Narragansett retaliations in the King Philips War (1675-1676), retaliation which took the form of a raid on the town of Lancaster in February 1675. Rowlandson was reunited with
her family after some three months of living among the Native Americans. The wife of a Puritan minister, Rowlandsons account of her experience offers rare insight into the feelings
of Puritans regarding the Native Americans and their relationship with the whites. Understandably disturbed by her experience, Rowlandson continually describes her Native captors
in derogatory terms. The term "murderous wretches" is introduced in the first paragraph as Rowlandson recounts the raid and the Native brutality inflicted on her fellow townspeople. The
brutality witnessed by Rowlandson was indeed horrible but even she admits that the same brutality is characteristic of any war. Indeed, the reader must remember that there is little
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