Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Rowlandson

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U.S. History Response Paper: Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson By Rowlandson The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary Rowlandson, it was some might call, “America’s first best seller”. In the 1600’s Mary arrives in America gain reunion freedom that they didn’t have in England along with twenty thousand other Puritans. Mary was taken captive shortly after they were settled in their villages were burned down and people were murdered by the Native Americans. She believed that the Native Americans or as Mary Rowlandson would call them, “Indians” were used by Satan and God allowed this as punishment to the Puritans for their wrong doing. The narrative starts off with Native Americans that set the colonists houses on fire, killed the Puritans: the well, children, elderly, and sick they took them all into captivity. Mary Rowlandson was one of the several prisoners of the Native Americans that wrote about their encounter with the Natives. It appears that Mary believed that Native Americans or American Indians were Indians and used the term Indians as reference to Native Americans and American Indians; although they were Native which according to Webster means “belonging to a locality or country by birth, production, growth. American Indian is a member of any of the aboriginal peoples of North or South America or the West Indies. In order for the Puritans to survive these traumatic experiences, they must believe in something or someone, which was their faith in God. When Mary was taken captive with twenty other people she was separated from her husband along with her children except for one child. She survived by reading her Bible to help her keep in touch with her faith. She believed that she would reunite with her family because of her beliefs in God. The Puritan’s believed that they had a
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