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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.
Contents
Introduction
Mary Jemison
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, Who was taken by the Indians, in the year 1755, when only about twelve years of age, and has continued to reside amongst them to the present time
In Context
Mary Jemison, Identity, and Indigenous Kinship
Henry K. Bush-Brown, images of the statue Mary Jemison (1910)
Artist unknown, Mary Jemison, the Captive (1892)
Seaver's Understanding of Gender and Governance in Seneca Culture
from James E. Seaver, appendices to A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (1824)
Of Their Government
Of Family Government
An Account of the End of Jemison's Life
from James E. Seaver, William Seaver, and Ebenezer Mix, Deh-He-Wa-Mis: or A Narrative of the Life of Mary Jemison (1842, revised and expanded edition)
Seneca Voices: Sagoyewatha / Red Jacket and Gyantwahia / Cornplanter
On good-faith negotiation: Red Jacket at Philadelphia, 31 March 1792
On religion and colonial missionaries: the meeting with Jacob Cram, November 1805
On bad-faith negotiation: 1790 Philadelphia speech to George Washington
The Treaty of Fort Stanwix and the Treaty of Big Tree
The Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1784)
The Treaty of Big Tree (1797)
Excerpts from Earlier Narratives of Female Captives
from Mary Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, Together With the Faithfulness of His Promises Displayed, Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682)
from Elizabeth Meader Hanson, God's Mercy Surmounting Man's Cruelty, Exemplified in the Captivity and Redemption of Elizabeth Hanson (1728)
A Fiction of Indigeneity
from James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 (1826)
Map: Genesee River Area
Map: New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio
