American Literature / Unit 4 AML 0319 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Mary Rowlandson's Captivity and Restoration
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The idea
In sixteen seventy-six the frontier town of Lancaster was attacked during the conflict colonists called King Philip's War, after Metacomet of the Wampanoags. Mary Rowlandson, a minister's wife, was taken with twenty-three other survivors, held for weeks, and ransomed.
In practice
A minister's wife, taken from a burning garrison.
Where people slip
Metacomet is the name; King Philip theirs.
Your place on the trail
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