{"product_id":"the-many-captivities-of-esther-ann-m-little-9780300234572","title":"The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn eye-opening biography of a woman whose life intersected with three distinct cultures in eighteenth-century America: colonial New England, French Canadian, and Native American\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Esther Wheelwright's journey--from Puritan girl, to Wabanaki captive, to mother superior of the largest Catholic convent in French Canada--is one of the most fascinating personal stories in the annals of what we call 'colonial history.' Deeply researched, and wonderfully contextualized . . . [this book] opens a wide window on three major cultural venues, whose interplay defined and shaped a whole era.\"--John Demos, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Born and raised in a New England garrison town, Esther Wheelwright (1696-1780) was captured by Wabanaki Indians at age seven. Among them, she became a Catholic and lived like any other young girl in the tribe. At age twelve, she was enrolled at a French-Canadian Ursuline convent, where she would spend the rest of her life, eventually becoming the order's only foreign-born mother superior. Among these three major cultures of colonial North America, Wheelwright's life was exceptional: border-crossing, multilingual, and multicultural. This meticulously researched book discovers her life through the communities of girls and women around her: the free and enslaved women who raised her in Wells, Maine; the Wabanaki women who cared for her, catechized her, and taught her to work as an Indian girl; the French-Canadian and Native girls who were her classmates in the Ursuline school; and the Ursuline nuns who led her to a religious life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ann M. Little\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300234570\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300234572\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/20\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.80d","brand":"Ann M. Little","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46962491097343,"sku":"9780300234572","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e8545510-fb69-434d-9e9f-e2e07b884164.jpg?v=1750651605","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-many-captivities-of-esther-ann-m-little-9780300234572","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}