<i>Setting All the Captives Free: Capture, Adjustment, and Recollection in Allegheny Country</i>, by Ian K. Steele
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All the Captives Free: Capture, Adjustment, and Recollection in Allegheny Country, Ian K. Steele. McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series. Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013. xvi, 688 pp. $39.95 US (cloth). Ian K. Steele is not a newcomer to the history of imperial politics, military and frontiers within the Atlantic world context. Indeed, his previous works (and there are many) weave together all these topics grounded in the experiences of colonial North America. This has set the groundwork for his latest contribution. At the heart of this 688-page volume is a goal to reconstruct the world of the Allegheny country through the case studies of captives taken between the years 1745-1765 (before and during the Seven Years and what Steele calls the of 1763-1765). According to the author, by learning as much as possible about all the captives of all the contending groups, and analyzing their capture, adaptation, and fate, it is hoped that our understanding of the events, the captives and the consequences will be greatly improved (p. 3). In order to cover a wide range of topics, the book is divided into four parts. Part One: Captured in Peacetime looks at the different ways Algonquians, Iroquoians, and Europeans took and treated captives before the Seven Years War. Steele argues that the captive taking resulted in provoking the subsequent military conflicts of the eighteenth century. Part Two Captured in War looks at the captivity experience during the Seven Years and the Anglo-Indian War. He alters the perception that captives resisted and attempted to escape. Further, he contends that these wars were not total warfare, as has been described other historians. This is explained looking at raids, sieges, and battles -all of which, he argues, describe a different experience or context for captive taking. Part Three: Captivity, Conversion, and Escape looks at the physical journey to the captor's community, the process of captive selection, and specific emphasis on adoption practices among Native peoples. Equally interesting to Steele are stories of those who escaped and the initiatives to find and re-claim captives. Finally, Part Four: Setting all the Captives Free weeds out the ambiguous nature of the freed captives. It looks at ways European captives became free through gift exchange, ransom, and forcible recaptures. By looking at the objections of returning captives and their metis character, Steele questions the attractiveness of European society. Taken as a whole, Steele's latest work provides an exhaustive and comprehensive database of all those captured in Allegheny Country from 1745-1765. Through a massive survey of colonial newspapers, archival holdings, printed narratives, letters, local folklore and genealogies, Steele has managed to compile an extraordinary amount of information on approximately 6,130 people captured or killed, including: Indians, British, French, and Canadians who were traders, warriors, soldiers, farmers, wives, and children. This information is then made ready to the reader as an appendix, spanning no short of 113 pages! Each entry is organized alphabetically and includes the name (surname if provided), a physical description, and the source from which this data was collected. …
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