Eunice’s Story

Hilary Mantel

  • The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America by John Demos
    Knopf, 325 pp, $25.00, July 1994, ISBN 0 394 55782 4

The Indians attacked in the dead of winter, before dawn. The first the minister knew of it was the sound of axes breaking open his windows and doors. Moments later, twenty painted savages were in his house. Bound and helpless, he watched them kill his six-year-old son, his new baby of six weeks and his black woman slave.

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