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Wampanoags

Mary Rowlandson, captured by Indians in 1676 and marched into the “vast and howling Wilderness”, survived to write the first and perhaps most powerful example of the captivity narrative

Lancaster, Massachusetts Bay Colony, February 10, 1676

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