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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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| 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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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note on Dates, Money, and Williamson’s Narrative
- Prologue: Aberdeen, 1758
- PART I. HARD FATE
- 1. Kidnapped
- 2. Sold as a Slave
- 3. Captive
- 4. Soldier
- 5. Prisoner of War
- PART II. THE INTERESTING TALE
- 6. Strolling Adventurer
- 7. Poor Peter Williamson
- 8. Peter Williamson, Pursuer
- 9. From the Other World
- 10. Bookseller, Printer, and Postman
- 11. King of the Indians
- Epilogue: Edinburgh, 1822
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index