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"Liberty's Captives makes a valuable and original contribution to the field of captivity narrative studies by expanding and theorizing generic boundaries and making available obscure and fascinating texts." --Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola, editor of Women's Indian Captivity Narratives

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"In Liberty's Captives Williams recovers a cache of treasure too long buried in popular print culture. Here we find the full text of prisoner-of-war narratives from the nation s first two wars, as well as from its adventures on the Barbary Coast; pirate captivities and shipwreck narratives; and accounts of maritime impressment, among others. And as with his earlier Pillars of Salt, Williams not only proves a capable editor but places his material in the full frame of American cultural history. Finally, the book not only greatly enlarges our understanding of the term 'captivity narrative' but also raises important questions about the relation of liberty to bondage in the New Republic. From its pages come voices we are likely never to forget." --Philip Gura, William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and author of Jonathan Edwards: America's Evangelical

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