Colonial American History

This carefully collected volume of eight essays and 24 supporting documents allows access to the best and latest scholarship on mainland British North America. This book demonstrates how differences in race, ethnicity, gender, and social status were continuously negotiated throughout England's North American colonies.

Kirsten Fischer teaches in the Department of History at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina (2002).

Eric Hinderaker teaches in the Department of History at the University of Utah. He is the author of Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley (1997).

Series Editor's Preface

xi

Notes on Contributors

xiii

Acknowledgments

xv

A Note on the Texts

xvii

Introduction

1

(4)

First Encounters

5

(34)

Introduction

6

(1)

Article

King Philip's Herds: Indians, Colonists, and the Problem of Livestock in Early New England

7

(22)

Virginia Dejohn Anderson

Documents

Reasons to Be Considered for...the Intended Plantation in New England (1629)

29

(2)

John Winthrop

Treaty between the Abenaki Indians and the English at Casco Bay (1727)

31

(4)

Indian Explanation of the Treaty of Casco Bay (1727)

35

(2)

Loron Sauguaarum

Further Reading

37

(2)

Puritan Culture

39

(58)

Introduction

40

(1)

Article

A World of Wonders

41

(44)

David D. Hall

Documents

A Model of Christian Charity (1630)

85

(3)

John Winthrop

Trial of Mrs Lucy Brewster at a Court Held at Newhaven (1646)

88

(4)

Tryal of Susanna Martin in Salem (1692)

92

(3)

Further Reading

95

(2)

Making Race

97

(44)

Introduction

98

(1)

Article

From ``Foul Crimes'' to ``Spurious Issues'': Sexual Regulation and the Social Construction of Race

99

(28)

Kathleen M. Brown

Documents

Letter to his Parents (1623)

127

(3)

Richard Frethorne

Virginia Slave Codes (1661-1705)

130

(9)

William Waller Hening

Petition against Zachareah Jordan (1783)

139

(1)

Ruth Tillett

Further Reading

140

(1)

African Diaspora

141

(53)

Introduction

142

(1)

Article

Time, Space, and the Evolution of Afro-American Society on British Mainland North America

143

(33)

Ira Berlin

Documents

A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea...(1705)

176

(2)

William Bosman

The Carolina Chronicle of Dr. Francis Le Jau (1706-17)

178

(6)

Francis Le Jau

A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, A Native of Africa, But Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America (1700s)

184

(8)

Venture Smith

Further Reading

192

(2)

European Immigration

194

(41)

Introduction

194

(2)

Article

Worlds in Motion

196

(23)

Bernard Bailyn

Documents

The Infortunate: The Voyage and Adventures of William Moraley, an Indentured Servant (1743)

219

(4)

William Moraley

Journey to Pennsylvania (1754)

223

(4)

Gottlieb Mittelberger

Informations Concerning the Province of North Carolina (1773)

227

(6)

Scotus Americanus

Further Reading

233

(2)

Awakening

235

(40)

Introduction

236

(1)

Article

``Pedlar in Divinity'': George Whitefield and the Great Awakening, 1737-1745

237

(27)

Frank Lambert

Documents

The Spiritual Travels of Nathan Cole (1741)

264

(3)

Nathan Cole

A Letter...to Mr. George Wishart (1742)

267

(3)

Charles Chauncy

The Distinguishing Marks (1741)

270

(4)

Jonathan Edwards

Further Reading

274

(1)

Creating Gentility

275

(60)

Introduction

275

(2)

Article

Bodies and Minds

277

(44)

Richard Bushman

Documents

Autobiography and Other Writings (1790)

321

(5)

Benjamin Franklin

Gentleman's Progress: The Itinerarium of Dr. Alexander Hamilton (1744)

326

(7)

Alexander Hamilton

American Weekly Mercury (Philadelphia), no. 575 (January 5, 1730/1)

333

(1)

Generosa Elizabeth Magawley

Further Reading

334

(1)

Backcountry Worlds

335

(38)

Introduction

336

(1)

Article

New Worlds for All: Indian America by 1775

337

(21)

Colin Calloway

Documents

The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution: the Journal and Other Writings of Charles Woodmason, Anglican Itinerant (1766-8)

358

(6)

Charles Woodmason

On Behalf of the Ohio Delawares, Munsies, and Mohicans, to the Governors of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia (December 4, 1771)

364

(1)

John Killbuck

A Journal of Two Visits made to Some Nations of Indians on the West Side of the River Ohio, in the Years 1772 and 1773

365

(6)

David Jones

Further Reading

371

(2)

Index

373

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