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A hybrid incorporating archival material from the 1600s, Bright Advent gives flesh to a ghost of Early American history largely forgotten, specifically the dark and complicated story of the Massachusett Indian John Sassamon and the Puritan missionary John Eliot. Robert Strongis an editor at Common-place and has received fellowships from the Massachusetts Historical Society and the American Antiquarian Society. Previous books include Puritan Spectacle, Joyful Noise: An Anthology, the chapbook Brethren, and the conceptual fiction Manufact Hologram.

Table of Contents
A Historian’s Introduction i Setting and Characters iii The Murder, The War 1 The Working, The Living 8 To Gather a Church 44 To Cockenoe’s Island 55 Return 63 King Philip 75 Epilogue 89 Author’s Afterword 95 Historical Timeline 97 Bibliography 100?

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      Publisher White Pine Press
      Published 18 May 2017
      ISBN-13 9781945680045
      978-1945680045
      ISBN-10 1945680040

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A hybrid incorporating archival material from the 1600s, Bright Advent gives flesh to a ghost of Early American history largely forgotten, specifically the dark and complicated story of the Massachusett Indian John Sassamon and the Puritan missionary John Eliot. Robert Strongis an editor at Common-place and has received fellowships from the Massachusetts Historical Society and the American Antiquarian Society. Previous books include Puritan Spectacle, Joyful Noise: An Anthology, the chapbook Brethren, and the conceptual fiction Manufact Hologram.

      Table of Contents
      A Historian’s Introduction i Setting and Characters iii The Murder, The War 1 The Working, The Living 8 To Gather a Church 44 To Cockenoe’s Island 55 Return 63 King Philip 75 Epilogue 89 Author’s Afterword 95 Historical Timeline 97 Bibliography 100?

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