A review by meaganmart
Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763 by Mary Pope Osborne

3.0

Captive narratives fascinated me as a child. I was pleased to see that Standing in the Light does a fair job of presenting the shortcomings of European settlers when discussing their dealings with the Native American people. It does not portray them as savages, it does not place all of the blame for the disintegration of the relationship between European settlers and Native Americans on their shoulders, and it paints a realistic picture of what life would have been like for a European settler that was taken into a Native American tribe and then had to try and reassimilate to "white" culture. Very interesting!