04448nam 2200709 450 991082220250332120200520144314.00-7735-8990-20-7735-8989-910.1515/9780773589896(CKB)2550000001163304(EBL)3332645(SSID)ssj0001151088(PQKBManifestationID)11750926(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001151088(PQKBWorkID)11106297(PQKB)11138386(CEL)446156(OCoLC)865475162(CaBNVSL)slc00233552(Au-PeEL)EBL3332645(CaPaEBR)ebr10797148(CaONFJC)MIL545442(OCoLC)923239222(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/gjk08q(MiAaPQ)EBC3332645(DE-B1597)656022(DE-B1597)9780773589896(EXLCZ)99255000000116330420111102d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSetting all the captives free capture, adjustment, and recollection in Allegheny country /Ian K. SteeleMontreal :McGill-Queen's University Press,2013.1 online resource (705 p.)McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies ;71McGill-Queen's native and northern series ;710-7735-4184-5 1-306-14191-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Part 1 : Captured in "Peacetime". Taken along Warriors' Paths -- Taking Traders, 1745-54 -- Colonial Soldiers Take Captives, 1754 --Part 2 : Captured in War. Taken in Raids, 1754-59 -- Taken in Sieges and Surrenders, 1756-58 -- Taken in Battles, 1755-59 -- Indian War with Traders and Soldiers, 1763-65 -- Indian War with White Settlers, 1763-6 --Part 3 : Captivity, Conversion, and Escape. Trails into Captivity -- Allegheny White Indians -- Escaped -- The Bereft --Part 4 : Setting all the Captives Free. Diplomacy of Gift Exchange, 1756-62 -- Redeemed and Exchanged, 1745-62 -- Forced Return of Captives -- Imperial Moment, 1765 --Part 5 : Afterwards and Afterwods. Restoring and Revising Identities -- Captivating Accounts, 1755-1826 -- Conclusion -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Appendix: Named Captives Taken on the Allegheny Frontier.Among the many upheavals in North America caused by the French and Indian War was a commonplace practice that affected the lives of thousands of men, women, and children: being taken captive by rival forces. Most previous studies of captivity in early America are content to generalize from a small selection of sources, often centuries apart. In Setting All the Captives Free, Ian Steele presents, from a mountain of data, the differences rather than generalities as well as how these differences show the variety of circumstances that affected captives’ experiences. The product of a herculean effort to identify and analyze the captives taken on the Allegheny frontier during the era of the French and Indian War, Setting All the Captives Free is the most complete study of this topic. Steele explores genuine, doctored, and fictitious accounts in an innovative challenge to many prevailing assumptions and arguments, revealing that Indians demonstrated humanity and compassion by continuing to take numerous captives when their opponents took none, by adopting and converting captives into kin during the war, and by returning captives even though doing so was a humiliating act that betrayed their societies' values. A fascinating and comprehensive work by an acclaimed scholar, Setting All the Captives Free takes the study of the French and Indian War in America to an exciting new level.McGill-Queen's native and northern series ;71.Indians of North AmericaWars1750-1815Prisoners and prisonsUnited StatesHistoryFrench and Indian War, 1754-1763Prisoners and prisonsIndians of North AmericaWarsPrisoners and prisons.973.2/6Steele Ian Kenneth952002MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822202503321Setting all the captives free3989603UNINA