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by William Henry Foster

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Between 1690 and 1760, close to two thousand New Englanders were taken captive by French Canadians and their Native American allies during five intercolonial wars. Puritan propagandists reacted by evoking the vulnerability of New England's homes and Protestant faith with images of captive women in sexual peril, a titillating vision only amplified in popular Victorian and modern portrayals of female captives as stock literary figures. In The Captors' Narrative, William Henry Foster demonstrates that the majority of Anglo-American captives taken along the New England frontier were, in fact, men.Free French Canadian women (both secular and monastic) routinely became the men's captors and benefited from their labor when they were brought to New France. In testimonials written by returning male captives, Foster finds fascinating instances of protest and resistance against the female authority that Protestant New England deemed "illegitimate." In the tales of Catholic women captors, Foster uncovers evidence that the control of male captive domestic labor expanded the public roles of the women in charge. The author painstakingly reconstructs the lived experience of both captors and captives to show that captivity was always intertwined with gender struggles. The Captors' Narrative provides a novel perspective on the struggles over female authority pervasive in the early modern Atlantic world.

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  • Title The Captors' Narrative
  • Author William Henry Foster
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 218
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca
  • Publication date 2003-03-25
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780801440595 / 0801440599
  • Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.42 x 6.3 x 0.8 in (23.93 x 16.00 x 2.03 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 17th Century
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
    • Cultural Region: Canadian
    • Cultural Region: New England
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects Canada - History - To 1763 (New France), Frontier and pioneer life - Canada
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2002151455
  • Dewey Decimal Code 971.018

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William Henry Foster is Fellow in History, Homerton College, University of Cambridge.

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Between 1690 and 1760, close to two thousand New Englanders were taken captive by French Canadians and their Native American allies during five intercolonial wars. Puritan propagandists reacted by evoking the vulnerability of New England's homes and Protestant faith with images of captive women in sexual peril, a titillating vision only amplified in popular Victorian and modern portrayals of female captives as stock literary figures.
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