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The Involuntary American: A Scottish Prisoner'S Journey To The New World
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A Common Mans Survival After Being Captured At The Battle Of Dunbar And Sold Into Servitude In Americain The Winter Of 165051, One Hundred Fifty Ragged And Hungry Scottish Prisoners Of War Arrived At Massachusetts Bay Colony, Where They Were Sold As Indentured Laborers For 20 To 30 Pounds Each. Among Them Was Thomas Doughty, A Common Foot Soldier Who Had Survived The Battle Of Dunbar, A Forced Marched Of 100 Miles Without Food Or Water, Imprisonment In Durham Cathedral, And A Difficult Atlantic Crossing. An Ordinary Individual Who Experienced Extraordinary Events, Doughty Was Among Some 420 Scottish Soldiers Who Were Captured During The War Of The Three Kingdoms, Transported To America, And Sold Between 1650 And 1651. Their Experiences Offer A Fresh Perspective On Seventeenthcentury Life.The Involuntary American: A Scottish Prisoners Journey To The New World By Carol Gardner Describes Doughtys Life As A Soldier, Prisoner Of War, Exile, Servant, Lumberman, Miller, And Ultimately Free Landowner. It Follows Him And His Peers Through Critical Events: The Apex Of The Little Ice Age, The War Of The Three Kingdoms, The Colonization Of New England, The Burgeoning Transatlantic Trade In Servants And Slaves, King Philips And King Williams Wars, And The Salem Witch Crisis. Firstperson Accounts Of Individuals Who Lived Through Those Eventsscottish, English, Puritan, Native American, Wealthy, Poor, Working Class, Educated Or Not Provide Rich Period Detail And A Variety Of Perspectives.The Involuntary American Demonstrates How Even Individuals Of Humble Circumstances Were Swept Into The Maelstrom Of The First Global Age. It Expands Our Understanding Of Immigration To The Colonies, Colonial Servitude, The Linkages And Tensions Between Europe, Massachusetts Bay, And Americas Northeastern Frontier, And Of New England Society In The Early Colonial Period.
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