Name: The Involuntary American: A Scottish Prisoner's Journey to the New World (en Inglés)
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Author: Gardner, Carol
ISBN: 9781594164347

portada The Involuntary American: A Scottish Prisoner's Journey to the New World (en Inglés)

The Involuntary American: A Scottish Prisoner's Journey to the New World (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Carol Gardner

Editorial

Westholme Publishing

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

256

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm

ISBN13

9781594164347

Categorías

Reino unido
Estados unidos de américa
C. 1600-c.1775 (época de la colonización y el asentamiento europeos en norteamérica)
1660-1714 (la restauración y la etapa final de los estuardo)
Historia general y del mundo
Historia de europa
Historia de américa

The Involuntary American: A Scottish Prisoner's Journey to the New World (en Inglés)

Carol Gardner (Autor) · Westholme Publishing · Tapa Blanda

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A Common Man's Survival After Being Captured at the Battle of Dunbar and Sold into Servitude in America In the winter of 1650-51, one hundred fifty ragged and hungry Scottish prisoners of war arrived at Massachusetts Bay Colony, where they were sold as indentured laborers for 20 to 30 pounds each. Among them was Thomas Doughty, a common foot soldier who had survived the Battle of Dunbar, a forced marched of 100 miles without food or water, imprisonment in Durham Cathedral, and a difficult Atlantic crossing. An ordinary individual who experienced extraordinary events, Doughty was among some 420 Scottish soldiers who were captured during the War of the Three Kingdoms, transported to America, and sold between 1650 and 1651. Their experiences offer a fresh perspective on seventeenth-century life. The Involuntary American: A Scottish Prisoner's Journey to the New World by Carol Gardner describes Doughty's life as a soldier, prisoner of war, exile, servant, lumberman, miller, and ultimately free landowner. It follows him and his peers through critical events: the apex of the Little Ice Age, the War of the Three Kingdoms, the colonization of New England, the burgeoning transatlantic trade in servants and slaves, King Philip's and King William's wars, and the Salem witch crisis. Firstperson accounts of individuals who lived through those events--Scottish, English, Puritan, Native American, wealthy, poor, working class, educated or not-- provide rich period detail and a variety of perspectives. The Involuntary American demonstrates how even individuals of humble circumstances were swept into the maelstrom of the First Global Age. It expands our understanding of immigration to the colonies, colonial servitude, the linkages and tensions between Europe, Massachusetts Bay, and America's northeastern frontier, and of New England society in the early colonial period.