Synopses & Reviews
Hope Leslie(1827), set in the seventeenth-century New England, is a novel that forced readers to confront the consequences of the Puritans’ subjugation and displacement of the indigenous Indian population at a time when contemporaries were demanding still more land from the Cherokees, the Chickasaws, and the Choctaws.
Synopsis
Catharine Maria Sedgwick (American Women Writers)