Captivity and Restoration

Captivity and Restoration is a first-person narrative of the weeks and months a woman spent as a prisoner after an attack on her New England settlement during King Philip's War in 1676. She is taken with her children and moves with her captors from camp to camp through winter country, facing hunger, grief and fear. The account is shaped by her Puritan faith, which she reads as a test and a lesson. It is one of the earliest and most influential American captivity narratives, valued as a vivid historical record and as a window into colonial beliefs and the conflict between settlers and Native peoples.