About this Series

Introduction

A Captive to Cannibals

The True History of His Captivity (1557)

Hans Staden

Saved by the Chief's Daughter

(The Inca) from La Florida (1605)

Garcilaso De La Vega

The Generall History of Virginia (1624)

John Smith

Jesuit Missionary Martyrs

Novum Belgium (1655)

Isaac Jogues

``A Veritable Account of the Martyrdom and Blessed Death of Father Jean de Brebeuf and of Father Gabriel Lalemant'' (1649)

Christophe Regnaut

The Foundational Narrative of Mary Rowlandson

Preface to the Reader

Increase Mather

The Sovereignty and Goodness of God (1682)

Mary Rowlandson

Two Puritan Captivities as Told by Cotton Mather

``A Notable Exploit'' (1702)

Cotton Mather

``A Narrative of Hannah Swarton'' (1702)

Cotton Mather

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

Henry David Thoreau

Two African American Captives

A Narrative of the Lord's Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant (1785)

John Marrant

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1784)

Olaudah Equiano

A Prisoner of War Adopted by the Iroquois

An Account of the Remarkable Occurrences in the Life and Travels of Col. James Smith (1799)

James Smith

A Legend of the American Revolution

Miss McCrea: A Novel of the American Revolution (1784)

Michel Rene Hilliard D'Auberteuil

Two Captivity Poems

``Bars Fight'' (1855)

Lucy Terry

``The Stolen White Girl'' (1868)

John Rollin Ridge

Two Nineteenth-Century Popular Tales

``The Indian Captive'' from Columbian Almanac (1838)

Anonymous

Or Life and Adventures among the Indians of the Far West (1866)

Gertrude Morgan

A Captive Indian

Geronimo's Story of His Life (1906)

S. M. Barrett

Annotated List of Earlier Captivity Anthologies

Works Cited