The Unredeemed Captive
Bridging the Colonial Wilderness Barrier
John Sousa
History 131W
Linda Meditz
October 10, 2007
From the perspective of a twenty-one year old college student in the twenty first century, it is hard to relate to the colonist’s of the 16 and 1700’s. Crossing the frontier was a necessary task for these colonists to begin new lives in New England. The only way to tap into this same theme is through placing one’s self in the wilderness, both physically and mentally, and peering out to the other side. As a class we were able to accomplish this by visiting the Buttolph-Williams House of Old Wethersfield and look upon this house through the cover of trees, just as these earlier settlers and Native Americans had done. The story of Eunice Williams is a wonderful example of the reciprocal theme of embracing the wilderness, by personal choice alone. In The Unredeemed Captive by John Demos, we hear the story of the raid upon Deerfield in 1704 and the......
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