A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison - Paperback
by James E. Seaver (Author), Tiffany Potter (Editor), Willow White (Editor)
A new edition of the captivity or adoption narrative of the settler Mary Jemison, who was adopted into a Seneca community in the mid-eighteenth century.
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison offers a remarkable perspective on eighteenth-century America. A white settler by birth, Mary Jemison was taken captive as a child in 1758 and adopted by two Seneca sisters. Refusing offers to return to settler society, she chose to spend the remainder of her life as a Seneca wife, mother, and respected community member. In 1823, the now-elderly Jemison shared her life story with white American writer James Seaver, who published it as a captivity narrative the following year. Conscious of the impacts of Seaver's editorial hand, this edition foregrounds Jemison's voice while also recentering Indigenous perspectives through an informative introduction and an illuminating selection of contextual materials.
Tiffany Potter is Professor of Teaching in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia. Willow White is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts & Humanities at the University of Alberta, Augustana.
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