Review Of American Captivity Narratives By Gordon M. Sayre

The African slave narrative is the most famous of the United States slave stories. This was not always the case. American Captivity Narratives by Gordon M. Sayre provides many slave narratives that are not studied any more. This book reveals how some settlers were taken by natives that refused to let the settlers take over these lands without a fight. It is interesting to see the difference between the treatment of natives toward captive settlers and the settlers to each other and Africans. One settler could barely stand the natives at the beginning of her captivity and grew fond of the natives as she spent more time with them. American Captivity Narratives also tells of story tellers who would share false slave stories to entertain in exchange for room and board. Slavery is a fundamental part of the United States and American Captivity Narratives by Gordon M. Sayre will give you a picture of different types of slavery.