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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Shannon, Timothy John (1964-....)
Titre(s) : Indian captive, Indian king [Texte imprimé] : Peter Williamson in America and Britain / Timothy J. Shannon
Publication : Cambridge (Mass.) : Harvard University Press, 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VIII-343 p.) : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. p. 275-329. Index
In 1758, Peter Williamson appeared in the streets of Aberdeen, Scotland, dressed as
a Native American Indian and telling a remarkable tale. He claimed that as a young
boy many years earlier, he had been kidnapped from the city and sold into slavery
in America. In performances he gave in taverns and coffeehouses and in a printed narrative
he peddled to his audiences, Williamson described his serial tribulations on the fringes
of the British Empire as an indentured servant, Indian captive, soldier, and prisoner
of war. In his performances and publications, Williamson offered British audiences
a distinctly plebian perspective on the British Empire in North America. His unique
career capitalized on the curiosity that the Seven Years' War ignited among the British
public for news and information about America and its Native inhabitants, but his
reputation for fabrication also made his contemporaries and historians reluctant to
believe him. Indian Captive, Indian King is the first biography of Williamson to separate
the fact from fiction in his tale and explain what it tells us about how the working
people of eighteenth-century Britain, so often depicted as victims of empire, found
their own ways to create lives and exploit opportunities within it.
Sujet(s) : Williamson, Peter (1730-1799)
Prisonniers des Indiens d'Amérique -- États-Unis -- 18e siècle
Prisonniers britanniques -- États-Unis -- 18e siècle
Colonies britanniques -- Amérique -- Opinion publique britannique -- 18e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
970.004 97 (23e éd.)
Numéros : ISBN 9780674976320. - ISBN 0674976320 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb455379809
Notice n° :
FRBNF45537980
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Prologue: Aberdeen, 1758 ; Part One. Hard fate: Kidnapped ; Sold as a slave ;
Captive ; Soldier ; Prisoner of war ; Part Two. The interesting tale: Strolling
adventurer ; Poor Peter Williamson ; Peter Williamson, pursuer ; From the other
world ; Bookseller, printer, and postman ; King of the Indians ; Epilogue: Edinburgh,
1822.
