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Elizabeth Marsh (1735–1785) was an Englishwoman who was held captive in Morocco for a brief period after the ship she was traveling from Gibraltar to England to unite with her fiancé was intercepted by a Moroccan corsair and overtaken by its crew. [4]
During King Philip's War on February 10, 1675, the settlement of Lancaster, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was attacked by Native Americans. The warriors burned down houses and opened fire on the English settlers, killing several and wounding more. They took many of the survivors captive, including Mary Rowlandson and her three children.
The story of Mary Jemison, who was captured as a young girl (1755) and spent the remainder of her 90 years among the Seneca, is such an example. [27] Where The Spirit Lives, a 1989 film written by Keith Leckie and directed by Bruce Pittman, turns the tables on the familiar white captive/aboriginal captors narrative. It sensitively portrays the ...
Elizabeth's story, God's Mercy Surmounting Man's Cruelty, was published in 1728. It was later renamed "An Account of the Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson." [6] The 40-page booklet explored her captive experience and reflected highly on her religion. Such views allowed the use of her narrative to spread the Quaker ideals of households and the role ...
Tanya Nicole Kach-McCrum (born October 14, 1981) [1] is an American woman who was held captive for ten years by a security guard who worked at the school she attended. [2] Her captor, Thomas Hose, eventually pleaded guilty to involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and other related offenses and was sentenced to five to fifteen years in prison. [3]
Le Roy's son, also named Jean Jacques and called Jacob, fought with his father's killers but was overpowered and taken captive, along with his 12-year-old sister Marie and another young girl, Mary Ann Villars, who was living in the house. [20] When a neighbor of Le Roy's by the name of Bastian rode up on horseback, he was shot and scalped. [15 ...
The Captive Imagination: A Casebook on "The Yellow Wallpaper" is an anthology of essays about Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1892 short story The Yellow Wallpaper. Edited by Catherine Golden, it was published in 1992 by The Feminist Press . [ 1 ]
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