Format: Paperback
Pages: 501
ISBN: 9780819560582
Pub Date: 15 Oct 1999
Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
Illustrations: 7 facs. 3 figs. Map.
Description:
For the newly established New England colonies, the war with the Indians of 1675-77 was a catastrophe that pushed the settlements perilously close to worldly ruin. Moreover, it seemed to call into question the religious mission and spiritual status of a group that considered itself a Chosen People, carrying out a divinely inspired "errand into the wilderness." Seven texts reprinted here reveal efforts of Puritan writers to make sense of King Philip's War.