The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright

Born and raised in a New England garrison town, Esther Wheelwright (1696–1780) was captured by Wabanaki Indians at age seven. Among them, she became a Catholic and lived like any other young girl in the tribe. At age twelve, she was enrolled at a French-Canadian Ursuline convent, where she would spend the rest of her life, eventually becoming the order’s only foreign-born mother superior. Among these three major cultures of colonial North America, Wheelwright’s life was exceptional: border-crossing, multilingual, and multicultural. This book discovers her life through the communities of girls and women around her: the free and enslaved women who raised her in Wells, Maine; the Wabanaki women who cared for her, catechized her, and taught her to work as an Indian girl; the French-Canadian and Native girls who were her classmates in the Ursuline school; and the Ursuline nuns who led her to a religious life.

Archaeology · Colonialism · Developmental psychology · Genealogy · Girl · Multiculturalism · Order (exchange) · Sociology · Tribe · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Anthropology · Canadian Identity and History · Gender Studies · History · Psychology · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment

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