Hope LeslieHope 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. "This handsome reprint makes available after many decades the New Englander's tale of seventeeth century Puritans, and their relations