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White slaves of Maquinna : John R. Jewitt's narrative of capture and confinement at Nootka by John Rodgers Jewitt, Richard Alsop, Robert Brown is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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John R. Jewitt's story of being captured and enslaved by Maquinna, the great chief of the Mowachaht people, is both an adventure tale of survival and an unusual perspective on the First Nations of the northwest coast of Vancouver Island. On March 22, 1803, while anchored in Nootka Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island, the Boston was attacked by a group of Mowachaht warriors. Twenty-five of her 27 crewmen were massacred, their heads "arranged in a line" for survivor John R. Jewitt to ident
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- Author
- John Rodgers Jewitt, Richard Alsop, Robert Brown
- Publisher
- Heritage House Publishing Company Ltd.
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781927051153
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, American Studies, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
Other editions & translations
- White slaves of Maquinna : John R. Jewitt's narrative of capture and confinement at Nootka (2010)
- Narrative of the adventures and sufferings of John R. Jewitt, only survivor of the crew of the ship Boston, during a captivity of nearly three years among the s (1967)
- Narrative of the adventures and sufferings of John R. Jewitt: while held as a captive of the Nootka Indians of Vancouver Island, 1803 to 1805 (1975)
- Journal Kept Nootka (the Garland Library Of Narratives Of North American Indian Captivities) (1976)
- The Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Hewitt, Captive of Maquinna (1987)
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