The Heath Anthology of American Literature Volume A: Colonial Period to 1800

by Lauter, Paul; Yarborough, Richard; Bryer, Jackson; Molesworth, Charles; Cheung, King-Kok

• ISBN13: 9780618532971
• ISBN10: 0618532978
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-13
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Unrivaled diversity and teachability have made The Heath Anthology a best-selling text since the publication of its first edition in 1989. In presenting a more inclusive canon of American literature, The Heath Anthology continues to balance the traditional, leading names in American literature with lesser-known writers and to build upon the anthology's other strengths: its apparatus and its ancillaries. Now available in five volumes for greater flexibility, the Fifth Edition offers new thematic clusters to stimulate classroom discussions and to show the treatment of important topics across the genres. A new HM ClassPrep CD-ROM with an electronic version of the Instructor's Guide and an extensive array of visual aids supports instructors as they prepare for lectures. The indispensable web site has been fully updated to include revised timelines, a multimedia gallery to support thematic clusters, and a searchable Instructor's Guide. New! Two new thematic clusters, "America in the European Imagination" and "Cultural Encounters: A Critical Survey" explore imaginary European constructions of a yet untouched American landscape. In addition, the new cluster, "On Nature and Nature's God," examines the shift from a reliance on religious faith to the use of reason and the scientific method. "On The Discourse of Liberty" surveys the notions and realities of American independence. Selections from authors such as Thomas Morton, Anne Bradstreet, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and Cotton Mather examine notions of identity and ideology in American literary history. New! Rich, new selections in the Native American Oral Narrative and Poetry sections depict the effects of cross-cultural encounters along the American frontier. Early selections reflect the growing interest among scholars in works of American literature that were not originally written in English and their impact upon the predominantly English literatures of North America. The section entitled "Cultures in Contact" is organized along regional lines, such as "New Spain," "New France," "Chesapeake," and "New England," to facilitate the comparison of different imperial agendas.

Table of Contents

Preface	xxv
COLONIAL PERIOD: TO 1700	1	(564)
Native American Culture and Traditions	2	(3)
The Europeans Arrive	5	(3)
New World Cultures	8	(3)
New World Literatures	11	(5)
Native American Oral Literatures	16	(97)
Native American Oral Narrative	19	(47)
Talk Concerning the First Beginning (Zuni)	22	(14)
Changing Woman and the Hero Twins after the Emergence of the People (Navajo)	36	(13)
Wohpe and the Gift of the Pipe (Lakota)	49	(2)
The Origin of Stories (Seneca)	51	(3)
Iroquois or Confederacy of the Five Nations (Iroquois)	54	(3)
Iktomi and the Dancing Ducks (Christine Dunham, Oglala Sioux)	57	(2)
Raven and Marriage (Tlingit)	59	(5)
The Bungling Host (Hitchiti)	64	(1)
Creation of the Whites (Yuchi)	65	(1)
Native American Oral Poetry	66	(47)
Zuni Poetry	69	(20)
Sayatasha's Night Chant	69	(20)
Aztec Poetry	89	(3)
The Singer's Art	89	(1)
Two Songs	90	(1)
Like Flowers Continually Perishing (Ayocuan)	91	(1)
Inuit Poetry	92	(5)
Song (Copper Eskimo)	92	(1)
Moved (Uvavnuk, Iglulik Eskimo)	93	(1)
Improvised Greeting (Takomaq, Iglulik Eskimo)	93	(1)
Widow's Song (Quernertoq, Copper Eskimo)	94	(1)
My Breath (Orpingalik, Netsilik Eskimo)	95	(2)
A Selection of Poems	97	(9)
Deer Hunting Song (Virsak Vai-i, O'odham)	97	(1)
Love Song (Aleut)	98	(1)
Song of Repulse to a Vain Lover (To'ak, Makah)	98	(1)
A Dream Song (Annie Long Tom, Clayoquot)	99	(1)
Woman's Divorce Dance Song (Jane Green)	99	(1)
Formula to Secure Love (Cherokee)	100	(1)
Formula to Cause Death (A'yunini the Swimmer, Cherokee)	101	(1)
Song of War (Blackfeet)	102	(1)
War Song (Crow)	102	(1)
Song of War (Odjib'we, Anishinabe)	103	(1)
War Song (Young Doctor, Makah)	103	(1)
Song of Famine (Holy-Face Bear, Dakota)	104	(1)
Song of War (Two Shields, Lakota)	104	(1)
Song of War (Victoria, Tohona O'odham)	105	(1)
Cluster: America in the European Imagination	106	(13)
Thomas More	109	(1)
from Utopia	109	(1)
Michel de Montaigne	109	(1)
from Of Cannibals	109	(1)
Theodor Galle, after a drawing by Jan van der Straet [Stradanus]	110	(1)
America, c. 1575	110	(1)
John Donne	111	(1)
Elegie XIX, To his Mistris Going to Bed	111	(1)
Francis Bacon	112	(1)
from New Atlantis	112	(1)
New Spain	113	(101)
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)	119	(13)
from Journal of the First Voyage to America, 1492-1493	120	(8)
from Narrative of the Third Voyage, 1498-1500	128	(4)
Cluster: Cultural Encounters - A Critical Survey	132	(4)
Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932)	134	(1)
from The Significance of the Frontier in American History	134	(1)
Andrew Wiget	135	(1)
from Reading Against the Grain: Origin Stories and American Literacy History	135	(1)
Annette Kolodny	136	(1)
from Letting Go Our Grand Obsessions: Notes Toward a New Literary History of the American Frontiers	136	(1)
Mary Louise Pratt	136	(1)
from Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation	136	(1)
Paul Gilroy	137	(1)
from The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness	137	(1)
Paula M.L. Moya and Ramon Saldivar	138
from Fictions of the Trans-American Imaginary	138
Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1490?-1556?)	136	(16)
from Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca	141	(11)
Prologue	141	(1)
from Chapter VII, The Character of the Country	142	(1)
from Chapter VIII, We Go from Aute	143	(2)
from Chapter X, The Assault from the Indians	145	(1)
from Chapter XI, Of What Befel Lope de Oviedo with the Indians	145	(1)
from Chapter XXI, Our Cure of Some of the Afflicted	146	(1)
from Chapter XXIV,. Customs of the Indians of That Country	147	(1)
from Chapter XXVII, We Moved Away and Were Well Received	148	(1)
from Chapter XXXII, The Indians Give Us the Hearts of Deer	149	(1)
from Chapter XXXIII, We See Traces of Christians	150	(1)
from Chapter XXXIV, Of Sending for the Christians	151	(1)
Fray Marcos de Niza (1495?-1542)	152	(4)
from A Relation of the Reverend Father Fray Marcos de Niza, Touching His Discovery of the Kingdom of Ceuola or Cibola...	153	(3)
Pedro de Casteñeda (1510?-1570?)	156	(3)
from The Narrative of the Expedition of Coronado	157	(2)
Chapter XXI, Of how the army returned to Tiguex and the general reached Quivira
Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá (1555-1620)	159	(19)
from The History of New Mexico	160	(18)
from Canto I, Which sets forth the outline of the history	160	(2)
Canto XIV, How the River of the North was discovered and the trials that were borne in discovering it...	162	(16)
Canto XXX, How the new General...went to take leave of Luzcoija, and the battle he had with the Spaniards
The Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe in 1531	178	(8)
from The History of the Miraculous Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe in 1531, 1649	179	(7)
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695)	186	(9)
48, In Reply to a Gentleman from Peru, Who Sent Her Clay Vessels While Suggesting She Would Better Be a Man	188	(4)
94, Which Reveals the Honorable Ancestry of a High-Born Drunkard	192	(1)
317, Villancico VI, from "Santa Catarina," 1691	193	(2)
Don Antonio de Otermin (fl. 1680)	195	(8)
Letter on the Pueblo Revolt of 1680	196	(7)
The Coming of the Spanish and the Pueblo Revolt (Hopi)	203	(4)
The Coming of the Spanish and the Pueblo Revolt (Hopi)	203	(4)
Don Diego de Vargas (?-1704)	207	(7)
from Letter on The Reconquest of New Mexico, 1692	208	(6)
New France	214	(21)
René Goulaine de Laudonnière (fl. 1562-1582)	216	(3)
from A Notable Historie Containing Foure Voyages Made by Certaine French Captaines unto Florida	216	(3)
Samuel de Champlain (1570?-1635)	219	(5)
from The Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, 1604-1618	220	(4)
from The Voyages to the Great River St. Lawrence, 1608-1612	220	(3)
from The Voyages of 1615	223	(1)
The Jesuit Relations	224	(11)
from The Relation of 1647, by Father Jerome Lalemant	226	(9)
Chesapeake	235	(54)
Thomas Harriot (1560-1621)	237	(10)
from A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia	239	(8)
Edward Maria Wingfield (1560?-1613?)	247	(8)
from A Discourse of Virginia	248	(7)
John Smith (1580-1631)	255	(15)
from The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles	258	(1)
from Book III, Chapter 2 [Smith as captive at the court of Powhatan in 1608]	258	(2)
from Book III, Chapter 8 [Smith's journey to Pamaunkee]	260	(4)
from A Description of New England	264	(3)
from Advertisements for the Unexperienced Planters of New-England, or Anywhere, Or the Path-way to Experience to Erect a Plantation [Review of the colonies planted in New England and Virginia]	267	(3)
Richard Frethorne (fl. 1623)	270	(3)
from Richard Frethorne, to His Parents (Virginia, 1623)	270	(3)
Nathaniel Bacon (1647-1676)	273	(7)
Nathaniel Bacon Esq'r his Manifesto Concerning the Present Troubles in Virginia	275	(5)
James Revel (1640s?-?)	280	(9)
The Poor, Unhappy Transported Felon	282	(7)
New England	289	(276)
Thomas Morton (1579?-1647?)	294	(13)
from New English Canaan	296	(11)
from Book I, Containing the originall of the Natives, their manners & Customes, with their tractable nature and love towards the English	296	(1)
from Chapter IV, Of their Houses and Habitations	296	(1)
from Chapter VI, Of the Indians apparell	296	(1)
Chapter VIII, Of their Reverence, and respect to age	297	(1)
Chapter XVI, Of their acknowledgment of the Creation, and immortality of the Soule	297	(1)
from Chapter XX, That the Salvages live a contended life.	298	(1)
from Book III, Containing a description of the People that are planted there, what remarkable Accidents have happened there since they were settled, what Tenents they hould, together with the practise of their Church	299	(1)
from Chapter I, Of a great League made with the Plimmouth Planters after their arrivall, by the Sachem of those Territories	299	(1)
from Chapter V, Of a Massacre made upon the Salvages at Wessaguscus	300	(1)
from Chapter VII, Of Thomas Mortons entertainement at Plimmouth, and castinge away upon an Island	300	(1)
from Chapter XIV, Of the Revells of New Canaan	301	(1)
Chapter XV, Of a great Monster supposed to be at Ma-re-Mount; and the preparation made to destroy it	303	(1)
Chapter XVI, How the 9. worthies put mine Host of Ma-re-Mount into the inchaunted Castle at Plimmouth, and terrified him with the Monster Briareus	306	(1)
John Winthrop (1588-1649)	307	(17)
from A Modell of Christian Charity	309	(8)
from The Journal of John Winthrop	317	(7)
William Bradford (1590-1657)	324	(23)
from Of Plymouth Plantation	326	(21)
from Book I	326	(1)
from Chapter I, The Separatist Interpretation of the Reformation in England 1550-1607	326	(1)
from Chapter IX, Of their Voyage, and how they Passed the Sea; and of their Safe Arrival at Cape Cod	327	(2)
from Book II	329	(1)
from Chapter XI, The Remainder of Anno 1620 [The Mayflower Compact, The Starving Time, Indian Relations]
from Chapter XIV, Anno Domini 1623 [End of the"Common Course and Condition"]	333	(1)
from Chapter XIX, Anno Domini 1628 [Thomas Morton of Merrymount]	334	(1)
from Chapter XXIII, Anno Domini 1632 [Prosperity Brings Dispersal of Population]	337	(1)
from Chapter XXXIII, Anno Domini 1637 [The Pequot War]	338	(1)
from Chapter XXIX, Anno Domini 1638 [Great and Fearful Earthquake]	340	(1)
from Chapter XXXII, Anno Domini 1642 [Wickedness Breaks Forth; A Horrible Case of Beastiality]	340	(1)
from Chapter XXXIII, Anno Domini 1643 [The Life and Death of Elder Brewster]	343	(1)
from Chapter XXXIV, Anno Domini 1644 [Proposal to Remove to Nauset}	345	(2)
Roger Williams (1603?-1683)	347	(20)
from A Key into the Language of America	349	(16)
[Preface]: To my Deare and Welbeloved Friends and Countreymen, in old and new England	349	(2)
Chapter XI, Of Travell	351
from Chapter XXI, Of Religion, the soule, &c.	256	(106)
Chapter XXII, Of their Government and Justice	362	(3)
To the Town of Providence	365	(1)
Testimony of Roger Williams relative to his first coming into the Narragansett country	366	(1)
Thomas Shepard (1605-1649)	367	(27)
Autobiography	370	(24)
Anne Bradstreet (1612?-1672)	394	(20)
The Prologue [To Her Book]	396	(2)
In Honour of...Queen Elizabeth	398	(4)
The Author to Her Book	402	(1)
To Her Father with Some Verses	402	(1)
The Flesh and the Spirit	403	(3)
Before the Birth of One of Her Children	406	(1)
To My Dear and Loving Husband	406	(1)
A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment	407	(1)
In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and Half Old	408	(1)
On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet, Who Died on 16 November, 1669, being but a Month, and One Day Old	408	(1)
Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666	409	(1)
To My Dear Children	410	(4)
Michael Wigglesworth (1631-1705)	414	(9)
from The Diary of Michael Wigglesworth	415	(4)
A Song of Emptiness	419	(4)
The Bay Psalm Book (1640); The New England Primer (1683?)	423	(14)
from The Bay Psalm Book	425	(2)
from "The Preface" by John Cotton	425	(2)
Psalm 1	427	(1)
Psalm 6	428	(1)
Psalm 8	429	(1)
Psalm 19	430	(1)
Psalm 23	431	(2)
Psalm 137	433	(1)
from The New England Primer	434	(3)
Alphabet	434	(1)
The Dutiful Child's Promises	435	(1)
Verses	435	(1)
The Death of John Rogers	436	(1)
Mary White Rowlandson [Talcott] (1637?-1711)	437	(31)
from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson	440	(28)
Edward Taylor (1642?-1729)	468	(28)
from God's Determinations	472	(7)
The Preface	472	(1)
The Souls Groan to Christ for Succour	473	(1)
Christs Reply	474	(4)
The Joy of Church Fellowship rightly attended	478	(1)
from Occasional Poems	479	(3)
4, Huswifery	479	(1)
6, Upon Wedlock, & Death of Children	480	(2)
from Preparatory Meditations, First Series	482	(3)
Prologue	482	(1)
6, Another Meditation at the same time.	483	(1)
8, Meditation. Joh. 6.51. I am the Living Bread.	484	(1)
from Preparatory Meditations, Second Series	485	(7)
1, Meditation. Col. 2.17. Which are Shaddows of things to come and the body is Christ	485	(2)
26, Meditation. Heb. 9.13.14. How much more shall the blood of Christ, etc.	487	(1)
50, Meditation. Joh. 1.14. Full of Truth	488	(2)
115, Meditation. Cant. 5:10. My Beloved.	490	(2)
from A Valediction to all the World preparatory for Death 3d of the 11m 1720 Version 1	492	(4)
Cant. 3, Valediction, to the Terraqueous Globe	492	(2)
A Fig for thee Oh! Death, Version 2	494	(2)
Samuel Sewall (1652-1730)	496	(11)
from The Diary of Samuel Sewall	498	(3)
The Selling of Joseph, A Memorial	501	(5)
My Verses upon the New Century [Jan. 1, 1701]	506	(1)
Cotton Mather (1663-1728)	507	(26)
from The Wonders of the Invisible World	509	(5)
[The Devil Attacks the People of God]	509	(3)
V. The Trial of Martha Carrier at The Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held by Adjournment at Salem, August 2, 1692.	512	(2)
from Magnalia Christi Americana; or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England	514	(10)
from A General Introduction	514	(3)
Galeacius Secundus: The Life of William Bradford, Esq., Governor of Plymouth Colony	517	(7)
from Decennium Luctuosum: An History of Remarkable Occurrences in the Long [Indian] War	524	(3)
Article XX, A Notable Exploit: dux femina facti [Hannah Dustin's Captivity]	524	(3)
from The Negro Christianized	527	(5)
from Bonifacius.... With Humble Proposals...to Do Good in the World	532	(1)
John Williams (1664-1729)	533	(11)
from The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion	535	(9)
A Sheaf of Seventeenth-Century Anglo-American Poetry	544	(36)
Thomas Tillam (?-c. 1676)	545	(1)
Uppon the first sight of New-England June 29, 1638	545	(1)
John Wilson (c. 1588-1667)	546	(2)
Anagram made by mr John Willson of Boston upon the Death of Mrs.Abigaill Tompson, And sent to her husband in virginia, while he was sent to preach the gospell yr	547	(1)
John Josselyn (c. 1610-post 1692)	548	(2)
Verses made sometime since upon the Picture of a young and handsome Gypsie, not improperly transferred upon the Indian Squa	549	(1)
The Poem	549	(1)
[And the bitter storm augments]	550	(1)
John Saffin (1626-1710)	550	(3)
[Sweetly (my Dearest) I left thee asleep]	551	(1)
The Negroes Character	552	(1)
George Alsop (1636?-1673?)	553	(1)
Trafique is Earth's Great Atlas	553	(1)
Sarah Whipple Goodhue (1641-1681)	553	(1)
Lines to Her Family	554	(1)
Benjamin Tompson (1642-1714)	554	(2)
Chelmsford's Fate	555	(1)
A Supplement	555	(1)
Richard Steere (1643?-1721)	556	(1)
On a Sea-Storm nigh the Coast	556	(1)
Anna Tompson Hayden (1648-1720)	557	(1)
Upon the Death of Elizabeth Tompson	557	(1)
Elizabeth Sowle Bradford (1663?-1731)	558	(1)
To the Reader, in Vindication of this Book	558	(1)
Roger Wolcott (1679-1767)	559	(3)
from A Brief Account of the Agency of the Honorable John Winthrop, Esq; In the Court of King Charles the Second, Anno Dom. 1662 When he Obtained for the Colony of Connecticut His Majesty's Gracious Charter	560	(2)
Mary French (1687?-?)	562	(20)
from A Poem Written by a Captive Damsel	563	(2)
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY	565
The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening	568	(3)
Daily Life and the Woman's Sphere	571	(1)
Literacy and Education	572	(1)
Revolution and Confederation	573	(3)
A Nation of Disparate Peoples	576	(4)
From the Plow, to the Sword, to the Book	580
Settlement and Religion	582	(218)
Sarah Kemble Knight (1666-1727)	584	(18)
The Journal of Madam Knight	585	(17)
Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce, Baron de Lahontan (1666-1715)	602	(8)
from New Voyages to North-America . . . from 1683 to 1694, in Two Volumes	604	(1)
from Volume I, A Discourse of the Interest of the French, and of the English, in North-America	604	(1)
from Volume II, New Voyages to America, Giving an Account of the Customs, Commerce, Religion and Strange Opinions of the Savages of that Country	605	(1)
from A Short View of the Humors and Customs of the Savages	607	(1)
from An Account of the Amours and Marriages of the Savages	608	(2)
William Byrd II (1674-1744)	610	(23)
from The History of the Dividing Line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina and The Secret History of the Line	612	(18)
Letter to Mrs. Jane Pratt Taylor (October 10, 1735)	630	(3)
Cluster: On Nature and Nature's God	633	(12)
John Locke (1632-1704)	635	(1)
from Essay Concerning Human Understanding Chapter I, Of Ideas in general, and their Original	635	(1)
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)	636	(1)
from Essay on Man, Epistle I	636	(1)
I [Say first, of God above or Man below]	636	(1)
VII [Far as creation's ample range extends]	637	(1)
X [Cease, then, nor Order imperfection name]	638	(1)
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)	638	(1)
from Treatise Concerning Religious Affections	638	(2)
James Otis (1725-1783)	640	(1)
from The Discourse of Nature and Government	640	(1)
Anna Eliza Bleecker (1752-1783?)	641	(1)
On the Immensity of Creation	641	(1)
Philip Freneau (1752-1832)	642	(1)
On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature	642	(1)
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)	643	(1)
from The Age of Reason	643	(1)
Chapter I, The Author's Profession of Faith	643	(2)
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)	645	(32)
from Images of Divine Things	648	(2)
On Sarah Pierrepont	650	(1)
from A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God	651	(5)
Personal Narrative	656	(10)
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God	666	(11)
Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713-1755)	677	(12)
from Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge,...Written by her own Hand many years ago	678	(11)
John Woolman (1720-1772)	689	(20)
from The Journal of John Woolman	692	(11)
from Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes	703	(6)
Francisco Palou (1723-1789)	709	(10)
Life of Junipero Serra	710	(1)
from Chapter XXII, The Expeditions Arrive at the Port of Monterey The Mission and Presidio of San Carlos Are Founded
from Chapter LVIII, The Exemplary Death of the Venerable Father Junipero	713	(6)
A Sheaf of Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American Poetry	719	(81)
Ebenezer Cook (1667-1733)	723	(1)
The Sot-weed Factor; or, a Voyage to Maryland, &c.	723	(18)
Susanna Wright (1697-1784)	741	(1)
To Eliza Norris-at Fairhill	742	(1)
Anna Boylens Letter to King Henry the 8th	743	(1)
On the Benefit of Labour	746	(1)
My Own Birth Day.-August 4th 1761	747	(1)
Richard Lewis (1700?-1734)	748	(1)
A Journey from Patapsko to Annapolis, April 4, 1730	749	(9)
William Dawson (1704-1752)	758	(1)
The Wager. A Tale	758	(6)
Jane Colman Turell (1708-1735)	764	(1)
Psalm CXXXVII. Paraphras'd August 5th, 1725	764	(1)
[Lines on Childbirth]	765	(1)
On Reading the Warning By Mrs. Singer	766	(1)
To My Muse	767	(1)
Lucy Terry (1730-1821)	768	(1)
Bars Fight	768	(1)
Thomas Godfrey (1736-1763)	769	(1)
from The Prince of Parthia, A Tragedy	769	(2)
Annis Boudinot Stockton (1736-1801)	771	(1)
To Laura	771	(1)
Epistle, To Lucius	772	(1)
A Poetical Epistle, Addressed by a Lady of New Jersey, to Her Niece, upon Her Marriage	773	(1)
The Vision, an Ode to Washington	775	(2)
Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson (1737-1801)	777	(1)
Upon the Discovery of the Planet By Mr. Herschel of Bath...	778	(1)
On a Beautiful Damask Rose, Emblematical of Love and Wedlock	778	(1)
On the Mind's Being Engrossed by One Subject	779	(1)
Nathaniel Evans (1742-1767)	780	(1)
Hymn to May	780	(1)
Ode to the Memory of Mr. Thomas Godfrey	782	(1)
To Benjamin Franklin, Occasioned by Hearing Him Play on the Harmonica	784	(1)
Anna Young Smith (1756-1780)	785	(1)
On Reading Swift's Works	785	(1)
An Elegy to the Memory of the American Volunteers,...April 19, 1775	786	(2)
Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton (1759-1846)	788	(1)
from Ouabi: or the Virtues of Nature, An Indian Tale. In Four Cantos By Philenia, a Lady of Boston [Canto One]	789	(1)
Stanzas to a Husband Recently United	792	(1)
The African Chief	793	(2)
Margaretta Bleecker Faugeres (1771-1801)	795	(1)
The following Lines were occasioned by Mr. Robertson's refusing to paint for one Lady, and immediately after taking another lady's likeness, 1793	795	(1)
To Aribert. October, 1790	796	(1)
Poems Published Anonymously	797	(1)
The Lady's Complaint	797	(1)
Verses Written by a Young Lady, on Women Born to Be Controll'd	798	(1)
The Maid's Soliloquy	799	(1)
Voices of Revolution and Nationalism	800	(287)
Handsome Lake (Seneca) (1735-1815)	802	(2)
How America Was Discovered	803	(1)
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)	804	(86)
The Way to Wealth	808	(6)
A Witch Trial at Mount Holly	814	(1)
The Speech of Polly Baker	815	(2)
An Edict by the King of Prussia	817	(3)
The Ephemera, an Emblem of Human Life	820	(1)
Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America	821	(4)
On the Slave-Trade	825	(2)
Speech in the Convention	827	(1)
from The Autobiography	828	(1)
Part One [Twyford, at the Bishop of St. Asaph's, 1771]	828	(1)
Part Two: Continuation of the Account of My Life Begun at Passy, 1784	876	(1)
Part Three [Philadelphia, 1788]	886	(4)
Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814)	890
To Fidelio, Long Absent on the great public Cause, which agitated all America, in 1776	892	(2)
The Group	894	(23)
from The Ladies of Castille	917	(1)
from An Address to the Inhabitants of the United States of America	918
J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1735-1813)	821	(136)
from Letters from an American Farmer	922	(1)
from Letter I, Introduction	922	(1)
from Letter II, On the Situation, Feelings, and Pleasures of an American Farmer	925	(1)
from Letter III, What Is an American?	928	(1)
from Letter V, Customary Education and Employment of the Inhabitants of Nantucket	933	(1)
from Letter IX, Description of Charles Town; Thoughts on Slavery; on Physical Evil; a Melancholy Scene	934	(1)
from Letter XII,. Distresses of a Frontier Man	941	(16)
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)	957	(19)
from Common Sense	959	(1)
Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs	959	(6)
from The American Crisis	965	(1)
Number 1	965	(6)
from The Age of Reason	971	(1)
from Chapter II, Of Missions and Revelations	971	(1)
from Chapter III, Concerning the Character of Jesus Christ, and His History	972	(1)
from Chapter VI, Of the True Theology	974	(2)
John Adams (1735-1826) and Abigail Adams (1744-1818)	976	(14)
from Autobiography of John Adams	977	(2)
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, March 31, 1776	979	(1)
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, April 14, 1776	979	(1)
from Letter from John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, April 16, 1776	980	(1)
from Letters from John Adams to Abigail Adams, July 3, 1776	981	(2)
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, June 30, 1778	983	(1)
Abigail Adams's Diary of Her Return Voyage to America, March 30-May 1, 1788	984	(2)
from Letter from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, September 2, 1813	986	(1)
from Letter from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, October 28, 1813	987	(1)
from Letter from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, November 15, 1813	988	(2)
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)	990	(39)
from Notes on the State of Virginia	994	(1)
from Query VI, Productions, Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal, Buffon and the Theory of Degeneracy	944	(1)
from Query XI, Aborigines, Original Condition and Origin	999	(1)
from Query XIV, Laws	1003	(1)
from Query XVII, Religion	1007	(1)
from Query XVIII, Manners...Effect of Slavery	1009	(1)
from Letter to James Madison, Oct. 28, 1785	1010	(2)
from Letter to James Madison, Dec. 20, 1787	1012	(3)
Letter to Benjamin Banneker, Aug. 30, 1791	1015	(1)
Letter to the Marquis de Condorcet, Aug. 30, 1791	1015	(1)
Letter to Edward Coles, Aug. 25, 1814	1016	(2)
Letter to Peter Carr [Young Man's Education]	1018	(4)
Letter to Benjamin Hawkins [Civilization of the Indians]	1022	(1)
Letter to Nathaniel Burwell [A Young Woman's Education]	1023	(2)
from Indian Addresses: To Brother Handsome Lake	1025	(2)
Federalist and Anti-Federalist Contentions	1027	(2)
The Federalist No. 6 (Alexander Hamilton)	1029	(13)
The Federalist No. 10 ( James Madison)	1034	(5)
An Anti-Federalist Paper, To the Massachusetts Convention	1039	(3)
Toussaint L'Ouverture (1744?-1803)	1042	(7)
Proclamations and Letters	1044	(5)
Cluster: On the Discourse of Liberty	1049	(18)
John Locke (1632-1704	1051	(1)
from Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay	1051	(1)
Chapter II	1051	(1)
Chapter VII	1051	(1)
Andrew Hamilton (1676-1741)	1052	(1)
Closing Argument in the Libel Trial of John Peter Zenger	1052	(2)
Hannah Griffitts (1727-1817)	1054	(1)
The Female Patriots. Addres'd to the Daughters of Liberty in America, 1768	1055	(1)
Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)	1056	(1)
Letter to Samson Occom	1056	(1)
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)	1057	(1)
rom Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson	1057	(4)
Prince Hall (1735?-1807)	1061	(1)
To the Honorable Council & House of Representatives for the State of Massachusetts-Bay....The Petition of a great number of Negroes who are detained in a state of Slavery in the Bowels of a free & Christian Country Humbly Shewing	1061	(2)
Anonymous (fl. 1795)	1063	(1)
Rights of Woman	1063	(2)
Fisher Ames (1758-1808)	1065	(1)
On the Dangers of Democracy	1065	(2)
Patriot and Loyalist Songs and Ballads	1067	(20)
"Patriot" Voices	1068	(1)
The Liberty Song	1068	(1)
Alphabet	1069	(1)
The King's own Regulars, And their Triumphs over the Irregulars	1070	(3)
The Irishman's Epistle to the Officers and Troops at Boston	1073	(1)
The Yankee's Return from Camp	1074	(2)
Nathan Hale	1076	(2)
Sir Harry's Invitation	1078	(1)
Volunteer Boys	1079	(2)
"Loyalist" Voices	1081	(1)
When Good Queen Elizabeth Governed the Realm	1081	(1)
Song, for a Fishing Party near Burlington, on the Delaware, in 1776	1082	(1)
Burrowing Yankees	1083	(1)
A Birthday Song, for the King's Birthday, June 4, 1777	1083	(1)
A Song	1084	(1)
An Appeal	1085	(2)
Contested Visions, American Voices	1087
Jupiter Hammon (1711-1806?)	1090	(7)
An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penitential Cries	1092	(2)
An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly, Ethiopian Poetess, in Boston, who came from Africa at eight years of age, and soon became acquainted with the gospel of Jesus Christ	1094	(3)
James Grainger (1721?-1766)	1097	(18)
from The Sugar-Cane. A Poem. In Four Books	1099	(1)
from Book IV, The Genius of Africa	1099	(16)
Samson Occom (Mohegan) (1723-1792)	1115	(22)
A Short Narrative of My Life	1116	(6)
A Sermon Preached by Samson Occom	1122	(15)
Briton Hammon (fl. 1760)	1137	(6)
Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprising Deliverance of Briton Hammon	1139	(4)
Prince Hall (1735?-1807)	1143	(9)
A Charge, Delivered to the African Lodge, June 24, 1797, at Menotomy	1145	(7)
Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797)	1152	(33)
from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself	1154	(1)
from Chapter 1	1154	(1)
Chapter 2	1162	(1)
from Chapter 3	1171	(1)
from Chapter 7	1176	(1)
from Chapter 10	1179	(6)
Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820)	1185	(17)
Desultory Thoughts upon the Utility of encouraging a degree of Self-Complacency, especially in Female Bosoms	1187	(3)
On the Domestic Education of Children	1190	(3)
On the Equality of the Sexes	1193	(7)
Occasional Epilogue to The Contrast, a Comedy, Written by Royal Tyler, Esq.	1200	(2)
Ann Eliza Bleecker (1752-1783)	1202	(9)
Written in the Retreat from Burgoyne	1204	(2)
from The History of Maria Kittle	1206	(5)
Philip Freneau (1752-1832)	1211	(15)
The Power of Fancy	1212	(4)
A Political Litany	1216	(1)
To Sir Toby	1217	(2)
The Wild Honey Suckle	1219	(1)
from The Country Printer	1220	(1)
On Observing a Large Red-streak Apple	1221	(2)
The Indian Burying Ground	1223	(1)
On the Causes of Political Degeneracy	1224	(2)
Timothy Dwight (1752-1817)	1226	(12)
from Greenfield Hill	1229	(1)
Part II, The Flourishing Village	1229	(1)
from Part IV, The Destruction of the Pequods	1234	(4)
Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)	1238	(17)
To Mæcenas	1240	(2)
Letter to the Right Hon'ble The Earl of Dartmouth per favour of Mr. Wooldridge	1242	(1)
To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North-America, &c	1243	(1)
Letter to the Rt. Hon'ble the Countess of Huntingdon	1244	(1)
On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield 1770	1245	(1)
On the Death of Dr. Samuel Marshall 1771	1246	(1)
On Being Brought from Africa to America	1247	(1)
A Farewell to America	1248	(1)
To the University of Cambridge, in New England	1249	(1)
Philis's Reply to the Answer in our Last by the Gentleman in the Navy	1250	(2)
To His Excellency General Washington	1252	(2)
Liberty and Peace, A Poem by Phillis Peters	1254	(1)
Lemuel Haynes (1753-1833)	1255	(17)
Liberty Further Extended: Or Free Thoughts on the Illegality of Slave-keeping	1258	(10)
Universal Salvation	1268	(4)
Joel Barlow (1754-1812)	1272	(19)
The Prospect of Peace	1274	(5)
The Hasty Pudding, A Poem, in Three Cantos	1279	(10)
Advice to a Raven in Russia	1289	(2)
Royall Tyler (1757-1826)	1291	(43)
The Contrast, A Comedy in Five Acts	1293	(41)
Hendrick Aupaumut (Mahican) (1757-1830)	1334	(6)
from A Short Narration of My Last Journey to the Western Country	1336	(4)
Hannah Webster Foster (1758-1840)	1340	(20)
from The Coquette; or, the History of Eliza Wharton	1341	(1)
Letter I, To Miss Lucy Freeman	1341	(1)
Letter II, To the Same	1342	(1)
Letter III, To the Same	1343	(1)
Letter IV, To Mr. Selby	1344	(1)
Letter V, To Miss Lucy Freeman	1345	(1)
Letter VI, To the Same	1346	(1)
Letter VIII, To Mr. Charles Deighton	1347	(1)
Letter XI, To Mr. Charles Deighton	1348	(1)
Letter XII, To Miss Lucy Freeman	1348	(1)
Letter XIII, To Miss Eliza Wharton	1350	(1)
Letter XVIII, To Mr. Charles Deighton	1351	(1)
Letter LXV, To Mr. Charles Deighton	1352	(1)
Letter LXVIII, To Mrs. M. Wharton	1353	(1)
Letter LXXI, To Mrs. Lucy Sumner	1354	(1)
Letter LXXII, To Mr. Charles Deighton	1356	(1)
Letter LXXIII, To Miss Julia Granby	1358	(1)
Letter LXXIV, To Mrs. M. Wharton	1359	(1)
Susanna Haswell Rowson (1762-1824)	1360	(13)
from Charlotte Temple	1361	(1)
from Preface	1361	(1)
from Chapter I, A Boarding School	1362	(1)
Chapter VI, An Intriguing Teacher	1364	(1)
from Chapter VII, Natural Sense of Propriety Inherent in the Female Bosom	1365	(1)
from Chapter IX, We Know Not What a Day May Bring Forth	1367	(1)
from Chapter XI, Conflict of Love and Duty	1369	(1)
from Chapter XII, [How thou art fall'n!]	1371	(1)
from Chapter XIV, Maternal Sorrow	1372	(1)
Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)	1373
Somnambulism, a fragment	1375
Acknowledgments	A-1
Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines I-1