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1994
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In the early morn of February 29, 1704, a French and Indian war party attacked the settlers of Deerfield, Mass. The episode achieved considerable notoriety in America and abroad, because the Indians managed to capture the eminent minister John Williams, his wife Eunice Mather Williams, and their five children. This Puritan family as well as more than a hundred of their good neighbors were now at the mercy of "savages:" French-speaking converts to...
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2014
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"The astonishing story of a unique missionary project-- and the America it embodied-- from historian John Demos. Near the start of the nineteenth century, as the newly established United States looked outward toward the wider world, a group of eminent Protestant ministers formed a grand scheme for gathering the rest of mankind into the redemptive fold of Christianity and 'civilization.' Its core element was a special school for 'heathen youth' drawn...
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2017
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In 1704, Mohawk Indians attack the frontier village of Deerfield, Massachusetts, kidnapping and marching over 100 residents, including seven-year-old Eunice Williams, to Canada where she is eventually adopted into a Mohawk family and remains there willingly for the rest of her life. Based on a true story.
