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Book SynopsisHope Leslie (1827), set in the seventeenth-century New England, is a novel that forced readers to confront the consequences of the Puritans’ subjugation and displacement of the indigenous Indian population at a time when contemporaries were demanding still more land from the Cherokees, the Chickasaws, and the Choctaws.
Trade ReviewThis handsome reprint... makes available after many decades the New Englander's tale of seventeenth-century Puritans and their relations with the indigenous Indian population. * Nineteenth-Century Literature *
Develop[s] the connections between patriarchal authority within the Puritan state and its policy of dispossessing and exterminating Indians. The different heritage it envisions explicitly links white women and Indians and elaborates a communal concept of liberty at odds with the individualistic concept which predominated in American culture. * Legacy *
A splendidly conceived edition of Sedgwick's historical romance. * Choice *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction
Notes to Introduction
Selected Bibliography
A Note on the Text
Hope Leslie Author's Notes
Explanatory Notes
