The Human Tradition in Colonial America

by Rhoden, Nancy L.; Steele, Ian K.

• ISBN13: 9780842026970
• ISBN10: 0842026975
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

The Human Tradition in Colonial America is an entertaining as well an enlightening book that brings the colonial period to life through the stories of the colorful participants who helped mold the British dependency that would eventually become the United States.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Meeting Colonial Americans	xiii
Ian K. Steele
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca: Conquistador and Sojourner	1	(20)
Peter Stern
Squanto: Last of the Patuxet	21	(16)
Neal Salisbury
Gabriel Sagard: A Franciscan among the Huron	37	(12)
Cornelius J. Jaenen
Anne Hutchinson, the Puritan Patriarchs, and the Power of the Spirit	49	(22)
Marilyn Westerkamp
In Search of Pocahontas	71	(26)
Kathleen Brown
Daniel Clocker's Adventure: From Servant to Freeholder	97	(22)
Lois Green Carr
John Cotton Jr.: Wayward Puritan Minister?	119	(22)
Sheila McIntyre
Isabel Montour: Cultural Broker on the Frontiers of New York and Pennsylvania	141	(20)
Jon Parmenter
Caspar Wistar: German-American Entrepreneur and Cultural Broker	161	(20)
Rosalind J. Beiler
Lewis Morris Jr.: British American Officeholder	181	(16)
Michael Watson
Pierre Pouchot: A French Soldier Views America	197	(20)
Brian L. Dunnigan
George Whitefield: Transatlantic Revivalist	217	(20)
Nancy L. Rhoden
Samson Occom: Mohegan Leader and Cultural Broker	237	(20)
Margaret Connell Szasz
Susannah Johnson: Captive	257	(16)
Ian K. Steele
Bryan Sheehan: Servant, Soldier, Fisherman	273	(18)
Margaret Kellow
Olaudah Equiano: An African in Slavery and Freedom	291	(14)
Robert J. Allison
Index	305