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03469aam a2200469 i 4500 001 DE14AF1A370411E887D7D95B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180403010230 008 170421t20182018mauab b 001 0beng c 010 $a 2017016494 020 $a 0674976320 020 $a 9780674976320 035 $a (OCoLC)988256025 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c HLS $d DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCF $d HLS $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a E87.W77 $b S53 2018 082 00 $a 970.004/97 $2 23 100 1 $a Shannon, Timothy J. $q (Timothy John), $d 1964- $e author. 245 10 $a Indian captive, Indian king : $b Peter Williamson in America and Britain / $c Timothy J. Shannon. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2018. 300 $a viii, 343 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 25 cm 520 $a In 1758, Peter Williamson appeared in the streets of Aberdeen, Scotland, dressed as a Native American Indian and telling a remarkable tale. He claimed that as a young boy many years earlier, he had been kidnapped from the city and sold into slavery in America. In performances he gave in taverns and coffeehouses and in a printed narrative he peddled to his audiences, Williamson described his serial tribulations on the fringes of the British Empire as an indentured servant, Indian captive, soldier, and prisoner of war. In his performances and publications, Williamson offered British audiences a distinctly plebian perspective on the British Empire in North America. His unique career capitalized on the curiosity that the Seven Years' War ignited among the British public for news and information about America and its Native inhabitants, but his reputation for fabrication also made his contemporaries and historians reluctant to believe him. Indian Captive, Indian King is the first biography of Williamson to separate the fact from fiction in his tale and explain what it tells us about how the working people of eighteenth-century Britain, so often depicted as victims of empire, found their own ways to create lives and exploit opportunities within it.-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Prologue: Aberdeen, 1758 -- Part One. Hard fate: Kidnapped -- Sold as a slave -- Captive -- Soldier -- Prisoner of war -- Part Two. The interesting tale: Strolling adventurer -- Poor Peter Williamson -- Peter Williamson, pursuer -- From the other world -- Bookseller, printer, and postman -- King of the Indians -- Epilogue: Edinburgh, 1822. 600 10 $a Williamson, Peter, $d 1730-1799. 600 17 $a Williamson, Peter, $d 1730-1799. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00157044 650 0 $a Captivity narratives $z North America $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Indian captivities $z North America. 650 0 $a Working class $z Great Britain $x History $y 18th century. 650 7 $a Captivity narratives. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00846616 650 7 $a Indian captivities. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00969063 650 7 $a Working class. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01180418 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 651 7 $a North America. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01242475 648 7 $a 1700-1799 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211024241.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180403021430.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DE14AF1A370411E887D7D95B97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search