White Slaves of Maquinna: John R. Jewitt's Narrative of Capture and Confinement at Nootka by John Rodgers Jewitt

White Slaves of Maquinna: John R. Jewitt's Narrative of Capture and Confinement at Nootka

John Rodgers Jewitt

192 pages • first pub 1815 (view editions)

nonfiction history memoir adventurous informative medium-paced
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John R. Jewitt's story of being captured and enslaved by Maquinna, the great chief of the Mowachaht people, is both an adventure tale of survival and an unusual perspective on the First Nations of the northwest coast of Vancouver Island.On March 2...

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