The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright by Little, Ann M

Yale University Press, 2018-03-20. paperback. Good condition. 6x1x9. good condition,fast ship

Yale University Press , pp. 304 . Papeback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Yale Univ Pr, 2018. Paperback. New. 286 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. An eye-opening biography of a woman at the intersection of three distinct cultures in colonial America Born and raised in a New England garrison town, Esther Wheelwright (1696-1780) was captured by Wabanaki Indians at age seven. Among them, she became a Catholic and lived like any other young girl in the tribe. At age twelve, she was enrolled at a French-Canadian Ursuline convent, where she would spend the rest of her life, eventually becoming the order's only foreign-born mother superior. Among these three major cultures of colonial North America, Wheelwright's life was exceptional: border-crossing, multilingual, and multicultural. This meticulously researched book discovers her life through the communities of girls and women around her: the free and enslaved women who raised her in Wells, Maine; the Wabanaki women who cared for her, catechized her, and taught her to work as an Indian girl; the French-Canadian and Native girls who were her classmates in the… Read More