The Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
by Mary Rowlandson
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- 9 mornings, about 2,200 words a reading
About the book
This is a memoir by Mary Rowlandson, wife of the minister of Lancaster, a frontier town in Massachusetts. In February 1676, during King Philip’s War between the New England colonists and several Native nations, Native forces attacked the town. (The book dates the raid 1675, because the English year then began in late March.) Rowlandson was shot and taken captive with three of her children. She was held for eleven weeks and five days, until she was ransomed for twenty pounds. The book first appeared in 1682 as The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, and it reads her ordeal as a trial sent by God.
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