Indian Captive, Indian King : : Peter Williamson in America and Britain /

Indian Captive, Indian King : : Peter Williamson in America and Britain / / Timothy J. Shannon.

In 1758 Peter Williamson, dressed as an Indian, peddled a tale in Scotland about being kidnapped as a young boy, sold into slavery and servitude, captured by Indians, and made a prisoner of war. Separating fact from fiction, Timothy Shannon illuminates the curiosity about America among working-class...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Shannon, Timothy J.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 22 halftones, 2 maps
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Note on Dates, Money, and Williamson’s Narrative --   |t Prologue: Aberdeen, 1758 --   |t PART I. HARD FATE --   |t 1. Kidnapped --   |t 2. Sold as a Slave --   |t 3. Captive --   |t 4. Soldier --   |t 5. Prisoner of War --   |t PART II. THE INTERESTING TALE --   |t 6. Strolling Adventurer --   |t 7. Poor Peter Williamson --   |t 8. Peter Williamson, Pursuer --   |t 9. From the Other World --   |t 10. Bookseller, Printer, and Postman --   |t 11. King of the Indians --   |t Epilogue: Edinburgh, 1822 --   |t Abbreviations --   |t Notes --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Index 
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