A Narrative Of The Sufferings Of Massy Harbison, From Indian Barbarity Giving An Account Of Her Captivity, The Murder Of Her Two Children, Her Escape, With An Infant At Her Breast
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
20.04.2021
Verlag
Alpha EditionsSeitenzahl
196
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/1,1 cm
Gewicht
293 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-93-5454-101-8
Some frontier stories refuse to fade. A mother fights to live. In A Narrative Of The Sufferings Of Massy Harbison, Massy Harbison records, in plain, urgent detail, her ordeal amid native american frontier warfare: captivity, the murder of her two children, and an escape made with an infant at her breast. This indian captivity narrative stands as an early american memoir and an unabridged frontier narrative, shaped by fear, endurance, and the stark choices of colonial american frontier life. Read it for its immediacy, its moral gravity, and its unsparing portrait of maternal survival and loss. It is brief, direct, and devastating. Collectors of Americana will value its authenticity and period cadence; general readers will find a fast-moving account whose emotional force cuts through centuries. Her testimony asks for remembrance. As a complete primary source account from the 18th century american frontier, Harbison's narrative sits in conversation with the mary rowlandson captivity narrative and the mary jemison captivity memoir, yet retains its own singular voice: a pioneer woman captivity testimony that foregrounds women's experience in crisis. For readers of history and literature alike, it offers a rare women's history memoir of settlement pressures, violence, and resilience, and a vital artefact in the lineage of American life-writing. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure for classic-literature shelves and for anyone drawn to the human truths behind the frontier myth.
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