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Telling It Slant: The Testimony of Mercy Short

Telling It Slant: The Testimony of Mercy Short   University of Chicago TellingItSlant The Testimony of Mercy Short For MaryLou FitzGerald May , –August ,  Now is the dreadful hour come, that I have often heard of but now mine eyes see it. Some in our house were fighting for their lives, others wallowing in their blood, the house on fire over our heads, and the bloody heathen ready to knock us on the head if we stirred out. Thus were we butchered by those merciless heathens, standing amazed, with blood running down to our heels. Now might we hear mothers and children crying out for themselves, and one another,Lord,whatshall we do? These words, now familiar to students of American literature, be- long to Mary Rowlandson; they testify to the horror of the Narragansett raid on Lancaster in February  (). I invoke her testimony here as a way to give voice to the unnarrated captivity of -year-old Mercy Short. In March of  Short witnessed the violent deaths of her mother, father, and three siblings when French soldiers and Sokoki braves raided the frontier town of Salmon Falls. Like Rowlandson, Short survived the initial attack to be taken captive; she was then removed to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early American Literature University of North Carolina Press

Telling It Slant: The Testimony of Mercy Short

Knight, Janice.
Early American Literature , Volume 37 (1) – Mar 1, 2002
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  University of Chicago TellingItSlant The Testimony of Mercy Short For MaryLou FitzGerald May , –August ,  Now is the dreadful hour come, that I have often heard of but now mine eyes see it. Some in our house were fighting for their lives, others wallowing in their blood, the house on fire over our heads, and the bloody heathen ready to knock us on the head if we stirred out. Thus were we butchered by those merciless heathens, standing amazed, with blood running down to our heels. Now might we hear mothers and children crying out for themselves, and one another,Lord,whatshall we do? These words, now familiar to students of American literature, be- long to Mary Rowlandson; they testify to the horror of the Narragansett raid on Lancaster in February  (). I invoke her testimony here as a way to give voice to the unnarrated captivity of -year-old Mercy Short. In March of  Short witnessed the violent deaths of her mother, father, and three siblings when French soldiers and Sokoki braves raided the frontier town of Salmon Falls. Like Rowlandson, Short survived the initial attack to be taken captive; she was then removed to

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Published: Mar 1, 2002

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