Editing Prisoner of war (section)

===European settlers captured in North America===
{{further|Prisoners of war in the American Revolutionary War}}
Early historical narratives of captured European settlers, including perspectives of literate women captured by the [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|indigenous peoples of North America]], exist in some number. The [[A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson | writings]] of [[Mary Rowlandson]], captured in 1676 in the chaotic fighting of [[King Philip's War]], provide an early example. Such narratives enjoyed some popularity, spawning a genre of the [[captivity narrative]], and had lasting influence on the body of early [[American literature]], most notably through the legacy of [[James Fenimore Cooper]]'s ''[[The Last of the Mohicans]]'' (1826). Some Native Americans continued to capture Europeans and use them both as labourers and as bargaining chips into the 19th century; see for example the case of [[John R. Jewitt]], a sailor who wrote a memoir about his years as a captive of the [[Nuu-chah-nulth people|Nootka]] people on the [[Pacific Northwest]] coast from 1802 to 1805.