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Editors Ian K. Steele and Nancy Rhoden have assembled the stories of a diverse pool of characters, ranging from a former slave turned abolitionist to a Massachusetts mother who stirred up a controversy concerning gender relations in Puritan New England. While well-known figures such as Pocahontas and Squanto are included, this book focuses on a variety of less historically conspicuous individuals, such as Gabriel Sagard and Bryan Sheehan, whose stories illuminate life in the colonial period.
Readers will meet Robert Bolling, the relative of Thomas Jefferson who never quite achieved the success of his more famous relation, and the sixteenth-century Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez, Cabeza de Vaca, who explored Florida and later lived among th
