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The Sovereignty and Goodness of God

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Second  Edition©2018  Neal Salisbury; Mary Rowlandson

ISBN:9781319049652

ISBN:9781319048815

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Explore Mary Rowlandson’s The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, first published in 1682. Combined with 21 supportive documents, the original text is the account of an English Puritan woman’s captivity among Native Americans during King Philip’s, or Metacom’s, War (1675-76) in southeastern New England. Bringing to light recent changes in scholars’ understandings of issues relevant to this time period, Sovereignty and Goodness of God introduces new interpretations of the original document since its inital publication 20 years ago, to help you gain a better understanding of what life was like during this historically important time.

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Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

List of Maps and Illustrations

Part One

Introduction: Mary Rowlandson in a World of Removes

The Setting: "King Philip’s War" (1675-1676)

Mary Rowlandson and Her Narrative

From England to New England

The Anglo-Indian Frontier

Two Towns Called Nashaway

Lancaster and the Rowlandsons

Worlds Upended

Total War, 1675-76

Captives and Captors

Redemption

War’s Terrifying End

Reordering and remembering

Postwar Diasporas

Interpreting War and Captivity

Publicizing Captivity

Mary Rowlandson’s Legacies

Part Two: The Document

The Preface to the Readers

A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

Part Three: Related Documents

English Expansion and Nashaway

1. Massachusetts General Court, Treaty with Five Indian Communities, 1644

Philip on The Causes of the Anglo-Indian War

2. John Easton, Excerpt from "A Relacion of the Indyan Warre," 1675

The Perils of War

3. Daniel Gookin Excerpt from "An Historical Account of the Doings and Sufferings of the Christian Indians in New England," 1677

4. The Examination and Relation of James Quannapaquait, January 24, 1676

5. Job Kattananit, Petition to the Governor and Council of Massachusetts, February 14, 1767

6. Town of Lancaster, Petition to the Governor and Council of Massachusetts, March 11, 1675

7. Indian’s Letter to English Troops at Medfield, 1676

Mary Rowlandson’s Release from Captivity

8. John Levertt, Letter to "Indian Sagamores," March 31, 1676

9. Shoshanim "Sam Sachem" et al.

10. James Printer et al., Letter to John Leverett et al., ca. April 1676

11. Massachusetts Governor’s Councils Letter to "Indian Sachems" April 28, 1676

English Justice

12. Andrew Pittimee et al. Petition to the Governor and Council of Massachusetts, June 1676

13. Massachusetts Council to James Quanapohit et al., 1676

14. Shoshanim ("Sam Sachem") et al., Letter to John Leverett et al., July 6, 1676

15. Daniel Gookin, A Memorandum of Indian Children Put Forth into Service to the English, August 10, 1676

16. John Hull, Excerpt from John Hull’s Journal August 24, 1676

17. Daniel Gookin, Account of the Disposall of the Indians, Our Friends, November 10, 1676

A New England Narrative of Muslim Captivity

18. Joshua Gee, Excerpt from "Narrative of Joshua Gee," 1680-87

The Captivity of Hannah Dustin

19. Cotton Mather, Excerpt from Decennium Luctousum, 1699

Revolutionary Remembering

20. Image of Mary Rowlandson, 1770

21. Paul Revere, Philip. King of Mount Hope, 1772

Appendices

A Rowlandson Chronology

Questions for Consideration

Selected Biography

Index

Neal Salisbury

Neal Salisbury (Ph.D., UCLA) is Professor Emeritus of History at Smith College and specializes in Native American and colonial American history, particularly in New England. He is the author of “Spiritual Giants, Worldly Empires: Indigenous Peoples and New England to the 1680s,” in The World of Colonial America: An Atlantic Handbook (2017), “The Atlantic Northeast,” in The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History (2014), and Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England, 1500-1643 (1982). He coauthored The People: A History of Native America (2007). He coedited Reinterpreting New England Indian History and the Colonial Experience, with Colin G. Calloway (2003) and Companion to American Indian History, with Philip J. Deloria (2002).

Mary Rowlandson