The Unredeemed Captive shows the path of abduction and adoption of American settlers by Indians. The book starts in 1704. The Mohawk Indians are allied with the French in Canada and attack Deerfield, a small village in Massachusetts. Reverend John Williams, the minister from Deerfield, was the main target for captivity because Boston held Jean-Baptiste Gayen whom the Canadians wanted returned. Two of Williams' children were murdered the night of the raid and the minister along with his wife and other children were marched to Canada with the rest of the Deerfield captives. The family was separated and they all realized that it might have been the last time they would ever see ea

ch other again. Indians assigned captives to a family, and were considered members of the family almost immediately after their captivity. After some years Reverend Williams returned home, began to focus on reassembling his original life and remarried Abigail Bissell, a widow from Connecticut. All of his children that were still alive were redeemed except for his daughter Eunice. Eunice, captured at the age of seven, matured and forgot all of her English and was converted to Catholicism. Although her captors were unwilling to release her, she did not want to leave her new family and return to her old. AT sixteen Eunice married an Indian boy and became A'ongote. Her family pleaded with her to come home. However, after numerous attempts to redeem her accompanied with many visits to Canada she still remained quiet. We see many pleas and prayers for Eunice's safety along with her safe return home from Steven's journal, which was kept up-to-date his whole life.

John Williams returned home some years after his captivity to find himself more in spirits with God than even before. During his time with the savages, he always had faith and never forgot the Puritan way of life. He remained strong, both for himself and for his fellow captives. When, after some years of realizing Eunice wasn't going to return, he became discouraged and confused with her decision of staying, for his religion and way of life was altered differently than hers by his captivity. He grew closer to God and his redemption was an act of God while Eunice went the complete other direction and stayed with her captors. I will say again, can you blame her though? He refers to Eunice's husband as "

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