WHITE SLAVES OF MAQUINNA, Capture and Confinement at Nootka, by John R. Jewitt, 2010

Author: John R. Jewitt. Published by Heritage House Publishing Company, Surrey, BC., 2000, (This is a 2nd printing, 2010). Printed in Canada. A Very Good Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with light handling to cover. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 8.5 x 5.5 inch, 191 pages includes index.

WHITE SLAVES OF MAQUINNA, is the true story of how John Jewitt, the sailor, was captured by Chief Maquinna in 1813 at Nootka, BC. Jewitt incredibly escaped 28 months later, and wrote this amazing story of his time as a slave.

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 identify. Jewitt and another survivor, John Thompson, became 2 of some 50 slaves owned by the chief known as Maquinna. After Jewitt was rescued, following 28 months in captivity, he wrote a book of his experiences. It appeared in 1815 and became known as Jewitt's Narrative. It proved so popular that it is still being reprinted today.

For more info on J.R. Hewitt, please see: John Rodgers Jewitt | The Canadian Encyclopedia

For more info on Chief Maquinna, please see: Maquinna | The Canadian Encyclopedia

ISBN: 1894384024
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