The Unredeemed Captain Is The Factual Telling Of The Deerfield Massacre Essay

Rodger Williams was an Anglican priest who had puritan tendencies. He founded Rhode Island and believed that religion should not be imposed upon the citizens (Frohen 42). Williams wrote the parliament in England because he wanted them to allow free discussion in England

William Faulkner tells his novel The Unvanquished through the eyes and ears of Bayard, the son of Confederate Colonel John Sartoris. The author’s use of a young boy during such a turbulent time in American history allows him to relate events from a unique perspective. Bayard holds dual functions within the novel, as both a character and a narrator. The character of Bayard matures into a young adult within the work, while narrator Bayard relays the events of the story many years later.

On the day of September 11, 1857, an emigrant party camped at Mountain Meadows was brutally killed by the Mormon militia aided by Indians. This essay examines two viewpoints regarding the massacre found in Sally Denton’s “American Massacre” and in “Massacre at Mountain Meadows” by Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley, and Glen M. Turley.

In The Unredeemed Captive, John Demos discusses the complexities within the sudden attack on Deerfield in Massachusetts including the experiences amidst of the invasion and captivity of the Williams family. John Williams, also known to be the father of the family, was a prominent and well-connected member of the New England clergy. He was also a Puritan minister who described with detail his overall experience as a captive from both The Mohawk Indian Tribe and The French Canadians, which in turn were considered to be allies. Following John Williams’s captivity, it became a matter of great concern throughout the colony. Soon enough, the Williams family had to experience the feeling of being separated with the realization that it might be the last time they would ever see each other again. Despite the misery, the life of the Williams family was changed forever when Mother

The main points of the book are little harder for me to pin down and the author himself states in the preface “Most of all, I wanted to write a story.” Indians at this time were considered savages and were to be feared. Their savagery is shown with the attack on Deerfield and the subsequent journey to Canada. But he then questions the idea in the same space with statements like “They can leave her by the trail- where she would soon perish from exposure and exhaustion. Or they can kill her “at one stroke”- quickly without much pain.”

The story starts in Deerfield, in October of 1703 with a time of trouble. The town is in danger of being ransacked and taken over by Indians. The townspeople contemplate reinforcing their stockade but before

There were rumors accumulating but by 1704 there were so many over a long period of time that everybody just ignored but still took precaution. Since they had been alerted to the possibility of a raid, they all took refuge within the palisade, and a guard was posted. The raid occurred in winter which was atypical. There was a couple feet of snow on the ground. The Indians would have to walk nearly 300 miles to get to Deerfield and return back with captives. The raiders swept into the village, and began attacking individual houses. Reverend Williams' house was among the first to be raided; Williams' life was spared when his gunshot misfired, and he was taken prisoner. Two of his children and a servant were slain; the rest of his family and his other servant were also taken prisoner. Similar scenarios occurred in many of the other houses. The residents of Benoni Stebbins' house, which was not among the ones attacked early, resisted the raiders' attacks, which lasted until well after daylight. A second house, near the northwestern corner of the palisade, was also successfully defended. The raiders moved through the village, herding their prisoners to an area just north of the town, rifling houses for items of value, and setting a number of them on fire. The captives were rounded up and marched to Canada. The word “raid” does not sum up to the events that took place in Deerfield. In this interpretation of the “true” story of Eunice Williams, it

Boston Massacre: The Boston Massacre was the breaking point for the war starting. The colonials felt like they were innocent and that the people that were killed were innocent. It angered the colonists that the British just shot at them. This made every meeting between the British and the colonists more and more tense.

I’m going to talk about what happened that day of death in Tombstone, Arizona. And what really happened to end up in a massacre in a little town in Arizona. The shootout is famous for the Mclaury gang and the Earp brothers ending a feud in bullets and blood. What people don’t believe is that Wyatt Earp was scared to kill a man as a child. So I’m going to talk about the beginning, way before the feud.

In December of 1763, drunken men from the town of Paxton, Pennsylvania raided a Conestoga Indian tribe. This assault resulted in the death of twenty indian. In response to the event Benjamin Franklin wrote, “The universal concern of the neighboring white people on hearing of this event, and the lamentations of the younger Indians when they returned and saw the desolation and the butchered, half-burned bodies of their murdered parents and other relations cannot well be expressed” (http://www.britannica.com/event/Paxton-Boys-uprising). The motivation the men had to commit such a horrifying act against innocent people was the belief that the tribe scalped whites and pillaged cities. Since many frontiersmen were sympathetic with the Paxton men, no charges were ever pressed. Neighboring indian tribes fled to the town of Lancaster for protection from the aggressive Paxton men. However, the frontiersmen then led to Lancaster in search for the indians. The Paxton men gathered the helpless Conestoga indians and butchered them. To this day it is unclear if local authorities attempted to intervene. The mob left without an witnesses so their actions were left unpunished. Colonial authorities in Pennsylvanian demanded that the killers must pay for their action. However, frontiersmen rallied to defend the Paxton men, forcing the officials to gather a militia. With this violent mindset, there was no person from either

In the beginning, the book centers on a small village on the frontier of the English colonies named Deerfield. It is here that the French, along with their Native American allies, raid the town and carry off 112 of the town’s residents, including the Reverend John Williams, his wife, and his children Stephan, Esther, Warham, and six year-old Eunice. John Williams was the main target of the attack, for it was hoped by the French that with his capture they could negotiate an exchange for the release of notorious privateer Jean Baptiste Guyon. During the march to New France, the children are scattered amongst the various Native American tribes before they are sold to the French. Three years later, John Williams returns to New England. Negotiations for the release of his children were successful except in regards to Eunice, who was still

Despite the longstanding tradition of black subservience within Southern culture at the time, Bayard chooses to relinquish such traditional beliefs in the pursuit of a true friendship with Ringo; unlike other post-Civil War Americans who only associated themselves with others on a level social footing, Bayard, by refusing to acknowledge such societal practices, possesses the freedom to exercise his own values and to engage in unorthodox relationships unattainable by others who are constricted by the bounds of tradition. Unlike his father, who symbolizes the ultimate figurehead of the Southern patriarchy, Bayard’s rejection of traditional Southern values through his relationship with Ringo reveals how he has always existed in antithesis to the status quo, a lifestyle which even Ringo believes “wouldn’t suit that white skin you walks around in” (148). In addition, in contrast to his stepmother Drusilla, who views the two men Colonel Sartoris murdered as “pirates,” “Northerners, foreigners who had no business here,” and sees their deaths as mere side-effects of a just cause, Bayard sees the deceased as “men” and as “human beings,” a view which further reveals the great divide between Bayard and the Southern perspective (151). Rather than merely accept the killing of the two Northerners as an inevitable process like Drusilla, Bayard recognizes his father’s fault, how he was “wrong,” “a drunkard” who

The 1870’s and 1880’s in America was marked with growing nativism towards the Chinese, accumulating to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 (Yung 54). Competing immigrant laborers effected the entire country, including the Midwest, where people sought employment in coal mines. Animosity towards the Chinese was also largely uncontroversial in the territories, with the Wyoming Republican party declaring that the Chinese were an undesired group (Storti 98). There is no definitive date that hints at the beginning of the Rock Springs Massacre in 1885, where many Chinese miners were killed by white miners. However, origins of this conflict can be traced back to when the Chinese were first brought in as strikebreakers in 1875 unde the Union Pacific Coal

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you just simply can not stop yourself from day dreaming that you are anywhere but the place you currently are? If you are similar to me you probably spend at least half of the school day in a daydream. Now, as my english teacher is reading this I am sure she is shaking her head because I have just admitted that throughout most of my classes I am probably not paying attention. (Of course not is Mrs. Sabers class though) Sitting in the colorless walls of Xavier High School only being approached by the administration when I am apparently harming all of student body and the entire mission of Xavier High School with my distracting (and cute I may add) pierced nose and my daily cup of necessary

On November 18, 1978, followers of Jim Jones shot and killed United States Congressman Leo J. Ryan and four others traveling with him on a fact finding trip to Guyana. Ryan was there to investigate complaints about the community called "Jonestown," which was largely inhabited by his former California constituents.