The Great Indian Debate: Mary Rowlandson And Benjamin Franklin

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In The Great Indian debate, there were two debaters, Mary Rowlandson and Benjamin Franklin. These two people had polar opposite views on the native population in puritan american. Mary Rowlandson was captured and held by native americans for close to eleven weeks during King Phillip’s war. Mary R. published a book titled The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, six years after she was released. In her writings she describes how she was captured and her children 's life as well as her own during her captivity. Mary Rowlandson explains that her family and herself survived by the grace of god. She often cites in her narrative that she threw herself into complete devotion and

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