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A 7 page paper reviewing John Demos' 1994 book, The Unredeemed Captive. Bibliography lists no additional sources.
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with several inferences from the author (Demos xii). A Mohawk raiding party attacked the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts, surprising the residents and sacking the town. In their wake,
they left several dead, including two young children, one six months old and one six weeks old, and a Negro slave of the Williams family (Demos 19). John Williams,
his wife, and his surviving children were captured and along with other townspeople, began the long and brutal "march" to the home of the Indians near present-day Montreal, Canada (Demos
32). During the trek, Williams wife, Eunice, is killed by the Indians when she slips while crossing a river (Demos 29). The practice of killing those who were
small and week was not as "cruel and bloodthirsty" as they seemed to the survivors but more one of practicality (Demos 29). Children and the elderly were frequently slain
during an attack as they were judged by the Indians not to be capable of making the long trek back to Canada (Demos 23). During the second day
of the march, Mrs. Williams tells her husband that her strength is failing, mostly because of recently giving birth (Demos 28). The Indians were unable to carry any of
the captives because they were carrying several of their own wounded, and rather than let those who could not keep up the pace of the march die a slow death
from exposure, they put those who "loitered" to death quickly (Demos 30). John Williams and five of his children survived the march to Montreal, where they and the
other captives were sold to the French and later "redeemed" through negotiations (Demos 35). When Williams and his surviving children reach Fort Chambly, a French fort approximately fifteen miles
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