Captivity as a Colonial Experience

Brittany Vara's exhibit "Captivity as a Colonial Experience: Minik Wallace (a New York "Eskimo") and John Gyles A Puritan Captivity Narrative" focuses on the story of Minik Wallace, a Greenland Inuit boy, taken to the United States by Admiral Peary in 1897 and the story of John Gyles, an Englishman taken captive by the Native Americans of New England. Taken captive in 1689, Gyles' memoir, published in 1736, has a similar story arc to that of Minik Wallace. Her presentation connects these two seemingly unrelated stories together to illustrate the overall story of captivity during colonial times.