The Many Captivities of Esther WheelwrightAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 29 May 2018
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An eye-opening biography of a woman whose life intersected with three distinct cultures in eighteenth-century America: colonial New England, French Canadian, and Native Americanâ?oEsther Wheelwrightâ?Ts journeyâ?"from Puritan girl, to Wabanaki captive, to mother superior ofA the largest Catholic convent in French Canadaâ?"is one of the most fascinating personal stories in the annals of what we call â?~colonial history.â?T Deeply researched, and wonderfully contextualized . . .A [this book] opens a wide window on three major cultural venues, whose interplay defined and shaped a whole era.â??â?"John Demos, author of The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America Born and raised in a New England garrison town, Esther Wheelwright (1696â?"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 orderâ?Ts only foreign-born mother superior. Among these three major cultures of colonial North America, Wheelwrightâ?Ts 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 Ursuline school; and the Ursuline nuns who led her to a religious life.
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