Captivity narratives are the lurid, yet, fascinating tales of Colonial Americans who were captured by Native Americans. (Many of the narratives took place in the 1600’s.)Historians still struggle to distinguish the fictitious and legitimate narratives from each other, but every, single, narrative continues to enthrall the reader. This genre has prospered in Colonial America since it was settled. Although some of the stories may be apocryphal, they are not to be downgraded. In the first encounter with Native Americans, over 10,000 colonists were captured, many of them uninformed of the reason. Colonists believe that there were numerous reasons the Natives decided to capture these people. Reasons such as, revenge, slave labor, ransom, etc. Captivity
