Question

Describe how the Mary Rowland's experience during her captivity is a metaphor for a devout Puritan society. (250-300 words)

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Mary Rowlandson, captive
Prior to her Native American captivity in 1675, little is known about Mary Rowlandson, a Puritan mother and minister's wife. Historical records of Puritan immigration indicate that her family sailed from England to Salem in 1639. In 1656 she married Joseph Rowlandson, the minister of Lancaster, Massachusetts, a wilderness town of two-story garrison houses built as a fortress to endure Native American attacks and large enough to house multiple families. On the day during the King Philip's War in which members of the Narragansett tribe attacked Lancaster at sunrise, the minister was traveling to Boston to appeal to the Massachusetts General Assembly for more protection for his community. In that attack, every home was destroyed by fire, and Rowlandson's wife Mary and their three children were taken captive.

King Philip's War had erupted in June 1675 with an Native American attack on the town of Swansea in the Plymouth colony. This retaliation led by Metacom, sachem of the Wampanoag tribe and named King Philip by the colonists, was provoked by the colonists' relentless encroachment on land occupied by native tribes, which violated the Rhode Island Charter of 1663 forbidding invasion and sale of land in Native American settlements. With the loss of fertile farmland, the starvation among numerous tribes incited the burning of Puritan settlements and the merciless killing of many Christians. The destruction ended in August 1676 when King Philip was killed by another Wampanoag fighting for the colonists. The Native American defeat in this war affected thousands of native people; it eliminated the settlements of all sovereign Native American tribes living in New England.