The Crisis of Restoration: Mary Rowlandson’s Lost Home

Bennett, Bridget

doi:10.1353/eal.2014.0028

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“Jethro, Who Saved Taunton”: An African Man's Captivity Narrative during King Philip's War

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2020

J. Am. Stud.

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This article examines the experiences of Jethro, an enslaved African man who was captured by the Narragansetts during King Philip's War. While captive, Jethro used his bilingualism to gather information about the Narragansett's war plans and then escaped and relayed them to the English. Jethro was granted freedom for this wartime service and went on to purchase property in the North End of Boston. He was representative of the charter generation of enslaved persons who showed that attitudes about race in seventeenth-century Massachusetts were still being formed. This essay further demonstrates how Jethro's story was appropriated by colonial writers at the time for their own unique purposes. Analyzing Jethro's story provides an opportunity to foreground Africanness in American captivity narratives.

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