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200 1. $a Indian captive, Indian king $b Texte imprimé $e Peter Williamson in America and Britain $f Timothy J. Shannon
214 .0 $a Cambridge (Mass.) $c Harvard University Press $d 2018
215 .. $a 1 vol. (VIII-343 p.) $c illustrations, maps $d 25 cm
300 .. $a Notes bibliogr. p. 275-329. Index
330 .. $a 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.
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