Indian captivity narrative, and it has been suggested that Aldridge's role accounts for the lack of discussion in the work of the issue of race, given that Marrant was an African American. Aldridge objected to later editions of the book (4th edition onwards). Henry Louis Gates, Jr. comments that the work, first published in 1785, is inaccurately described as a slave narrative. It had seen 20 editions by 1835. References External links Anonymous memoir of Aldridge in The Evangelical Magazine, 1811. Attribution English Christian religious leaders People from Warminster 1737 births 1797 deaths Burials at Bunhill Fields Calvinistic Methodists