Mary Jemison, Captivity Narrative from the 1750s
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Description: Excerpts from the Seneca adoptee's narrated autobiography.
Mary Jemison, Captivity Narrative from the 1750s (1824) Mary Jemison, Captivity Narrative from the 1750s (1824). Mary Jemison was probably about 15 years old when she was captured and adopted by Seneca Indians in the late 1750s (during the Seven Years War or "French and Indian War"). Although written in the first person, Jemison was 80 years old and illiterate when she was interviewed by James Seaver who wrote the narrative. Although mediated by another person, this narrative does give us a glimpse of the voice of an English woman who chose to remain and live within the Indian culture into which she had been adopted
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