In early decades of American independence, Philadelphia’s publishers printed a broad range of books on current events and controversies. This compilation of sensationalistic accounts of Indian atrocities inflamed Pennsylvanians' anger against Native Americans and led to their almost complete removal from the state by the early 1800s. The frontispiece by early American wood-engraver Peter Rushton Maverick, after a drawing by Philadelphia artist Samuel Folwell, depicts Manheim's sixteen-year-old twin daughters being burned alive as a circle of Indians dance around them.
