I got interested in captivity narratives when I first read Mary Rowlandson's in a graduate class. (Captivity narratives are the personal stories of those who have been captured by an enemy. Sarah's voice in this story is one of those.) Mary Rowlandson was an English colonist who was captured by Native people in 1675 during King Philip's War and held for ransom. Her account became what was really the first American bestseller.
