Explore: Captivity Narratives

Captivity narratives are typically personal accounts of people who have been captured by an enemy, generally an enemy with a foreign culture. The best-known

well-known captivity narratives were published before the American Revolution, and they often followed forms established with the narratives of captivity in North

North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-2079-7. American Captivity Narratives: Selected Narratives with Introduction. New Riverside editions. Gordon M. Sayre

is considered a formative American work in the literary genre of captivity narratives. It went through four printings in 1682 and garnered readership both

which is considered a formative example of the literary genre of captivity narratives. It is also considered one of America's first bestsellers, and four

True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil (German: Warhaftige Historia und beschreibung eyner Landtschafft der Wilden Nacketen, Grimmigen

Look up captivity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Captivity is a state wherein humans or other animals are confined to a particular space and prevented

Harbison, 1792, which is an example of the American literary genre of captivity narratives. Mary Jane "Massy" White was born on March 18, 1770, in Amwell, New

she lived. Elizabeth Hanson died in Dover, New Hampshire in 1737. Captivity narratives became a new genre of literature that was born during this period

in which three Amish settlers were killed and three others taken into captivity. The attack was one of many assaults by French-allied Lenape and Shawnee