Major Problems in American Colonial History : Documents and Essays

by KUPPERMAN

• ISBN13: 9780669199222
• ISBN10: 0669199222
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-01-01
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Table of Contents

Two Worlds Discover Each Other	1	(39)
Documents
Eric the Red's Saga, c. 1270	2	(2)
Christopher Columbus Reports to Ferdinand and Isabella	4	(5)
First Voyage, 1492--1493	4	(3)
Fourth Voyage, 1503	7	(2)
R. H. Major
Jacques Cartier Observes the St. Lawrence and Its People, 1535--1536	9	(3)
H. P. Biggar
Maushop Leaves New England: An Indian Legend About Colonization	12	(1)
Thomas Harriot Forecasts Indian-Colonist Relationships, 1588	12	(4)
Arthur Barlowe Sees America as the Garden of Eden, 1584	16	(2)
Essays
Colonization as a ``Swarming''	18	(9)
Alfred Crosby
Indians, Colonists, and the Environment	27	(12)
William Cronon
Richard White
The Colonizing Impulse: Promise and Reality	39	(44)
Documents
An Account of Coronado's Exploration of the Southwest, 1540--1542	40	(2)
George Parker Winship
Fray Alonso de Benavides Reports New Mexico Indians Eager for Conversion, 1634	42	(3)
Frederick Webb Hodge
George P. Hammond
Agapito Rey
New Mexico's Indians Rebel Against Suppression of Their Native Religion, 1680: Four Accounts	45	(2)
Alonso Garcia to Fray Francisco de Ayeta	45	(1)
Fray Antonio de Sierra to Fray Francisco de Ayeta	45	(1)
Statement of One of the Rebellious Christian Indians	46	(1)
Statement of Pedro Garcia	46	(1)
Charmion Clair Shelby
Richard Hakluyt's ``Discourse of Western Planting,'' 1584	47	(2)
Governor Ralph Lane Describes the Roanoke Colony's Attack on the Roanoke Indians, 1586	49	(2)
Essays
Spain and New Mexico: Conversion and Rebellion	51	(21)
Elizabeth A. H. John
Roanoke: England's Lost Colony	72	(11)
Karen Ordahl Kupperman
The Chesapeake: England's First Successful Colonization	83	(34)
Documents
Captain John Smith on Early Jamestown (1607--1610)	84	(5)
The Virginia Company's Declaration on Virginia, 1620	89	(3)
Jamestown Estates: A Contemporary Parody, 1991	92	(1)
Richard Frethorne Writes to His Mother and Father, 1623	93	(2)
Blank Servant Indenture Form, 1635	95	(1)
George Alsop on the Benefits of Servitude, 1666	96	(2)
Robert Beverley on the Servants and Slaves in Virginia, 1705	98	(2)
Essays
The Experience of White Women in the Chesapeake	100	(8)
Lois Green Carr
Lorena S. Walsh
From Servitude to Slavery in the Chesapeake	108	(9)
Russell Menard
New England: The Settlement of the Puritan Colonies	117	(41)
Documents
Plymouth's Pilgrims on the Mayflower Compact and the First Thanksgiving, 1620, 1621	118	(2)
Governor William Bradford on the Plymouth Colonists' Relations with the Indians, Early 1620s	120	(4)
Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts Bay Gives a Model of Christian Charity, 1630	124	(2)
Colonist John Pond Writes His Mother and Father for Help, 1631	126	(2)
The Reverend Thomas Welde Describes the Success of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1632	128	(1)
``The Summons to New England,'' n. d.	129	(2)
William Wood on the Indian's Response to the English Presence, 1634	131	(4)
Miantonomo's Call for Indian Unity, 1642	135	(1)
Essays
Squanto, the Last of the Patuxets	136	(9)
Neal Salisbury
Religion, the Common Thread of Motivation	145	(13)
Virginia DeJohn Anderson
Challenges to the New England Way: Sects and Witches	158	(33)
Documents
Testimony from the Trial of Anne Hutchinson, 1637	159	(3)
Quaker Testimony: The Execution of Mary Dyer, 1660	162	(2)
Governor John Endecott Defends Religious Practice in Massachusetts, 1660	164	(2)
John Josselyn Criticizes the Treatment of Dissenters, 1675	166	(1)
Increase Mather on Proofs of Witchcrafts, 1684	166	(3)
Testimony and Examination on Rebecca Nurse of Salem, 1692	169	(6)
Essays
Quakerism in Massachusetts: Threat and Response	175	(8)
Carla Gardina Pestana
The Role of Witchcraft in Social Discourse	183	(8)
John Putnam Demos
The Chesapeake: Bacon's Rebellion and the Creation of a Creole Society	191	(43)
Documents
John Hammond on Chesapeake Development, 1656	192	(7)
Edward Williams Describes Necessaries for Planters, 1650	199	(1)
Nathaniel Bacon's Manifesto Concerning the Troubles in Virginia, 1676	200	(2)
Elizabeth Bacon Writes of Fear on the Virginia Frontier, 1676	202	(1)
Mary Horsmanden Byrd on the Grievances of Frontier Settlers in Virginia, 1676	203	(1)
William Sherwood Denounces Bacon and His Defiance of the Law, 1676	204	(2)
Planter William Fitzhugh on Settled Life in Virginia, 1686	206	(5)
Essays
Politics and Social Structure in Virginia	211	(12)
Bernard Bailyn
Slavery and Freedom: The American Paradox	223	(11)
Edmund S. Morgan
New Directions in Family Life and Labor	234	(41)
Documents
Edward Johnson on the Founding of New England Towns, 1654	235	(2)
Anne Bradstreet on Parents and Children, c. 1635--1670	237	(2)
Thomas Minor's Diary: A Farmer's Year, 1660	239	(3)
William Penn on the Attractions of Pennsylvania, 1681	242	(2)
William Penn's Advice on Parting from His Family, 1682	244	(6)
Essays
Family Labor in New England	250	(9)
Daniel Vickers
Wives as Deputy Husbands	259	(6)
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
``Modern'' Quaker Families in Pennsylvania	265	(10)
Barry Levy
The Middle Colonies: Ethnicity, Competition, and Economic Success	275	(40)
Documents
Traveler Jasper Dankaerts Calls on New York Planter Maria van Rensselaer, 1680	276	(1)
Henry C. Murphy
S. G. Nissensen
J. Franklin Jameson
Per Kalm Offers Impressions of New Jersey and New York, 1750	277	(5)
John Reinhold Forster
Adolph B. Benson
Edith M. L. Carlborg
Reverend Andrew Burnaby's Thumbnail Sketch of New York, 1759--1760	282	(1)
Quaker George Fox Describes His Travels Through America, 1672	283	(3)
William Penn's Prospectus for Merchants, 1683	286	(2)
Francis Daniel Pastorius Recalls the Founding of Germantown, 1685	288	(3)
Gertrude Selwyn Kimball
M. D. Learned
Colonist Gabriel Thomas on High Wages and Great Opportunities in Pennsylvania, 1698	291	(3)
Essays
Dutch Colonists Cope with English Control	294	(9)
A. G. Roeber
The First Merchants of Pennsylvania: Generational Failure?	303	(12)
Gary B. Nash
The Proprietary Colonies of the Lower South	315	(44)
Documents
Indian Trader John Lawson's Journal of Carolina, 1709	316	(2)
An Anonymous Letter from the Swiss Settlement Near New Bern, 1711	318	(1)
Translated	319	(1)
Vincent H. Todd
Julius Goebel
Eliza Lucas Pinckney on the Perfection of Indigo, 1785	319	(1)
Edward Randolph Reports to the Board of Trade on Economic Prospects and the Spanish Threat, 1699	320	(2)
James Oglethorpe, ``Persons Reduc'd to Poverty May Be Happy in Georgia,'' 1732	322	(2)
William Byrd Praises the Plan for Georgia, 1736	324	(2)
William Dunlop's Effort to Recover Runaway Slaves in St. Augustine, 1688	326	(2)
Report to the South Carolina General Assembly on the Failed St. Augustine Expedition of 1740	328	(2)
Essays
Dying in Paradise: Perception and Reality in Colonial South Carolina	330	(7)
H. Roy Merrens
George D. Terry
A Free Black Community in Spanish Florida	337	(11)
Jane Landers
Jonathan Bryan's Plantation Empire in Georgia	348	(11)
Alan Gallay
The Great Awakening: Religious Upheaval Across the Colonies	359	(37)
Documents
Benjamin Franklin on His Friend George Whitefield, 1739	360	(3)
Nathan Cole on Going to Hear Whitefield at Middletown, 1740	363	(1)
Gilbert Tennent on the Danger of an Unconverted Ministry, 1740	364	(2)
Jonathan Edward's Sermon ``Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,'' 1741	366	(3)
The Reverend Joseph Fish on Samuel Niles, Narragansett New Light Preacher, 1765	369	(2)
A Newspaper Account of the Expulsion of James Davenport, 1742	371	(2)
Letters Against Virginia New Lights, 1740s--1750s	373	(4)
Essays
The Middle Colonies' Awakening	377	(5)
Patricia U. Bonomi
Preaching and Revival in New England	382	(6)
Harry S. Stout
The Baptists' Challenge in Virginia	388	(8)
Rhys Isaac
Mature Societies in Colonial America	396	(46)
Documents
Robert Beverley Describes the Established Life in Virginia, 1705	397	(1)
Hugh Jones on Agriculture and Slave Life in Virginia, 1724	398	(3)
Planter William Byrd's Diary of a Planter's Month, 1740	401	(4)
Planter Landon Carter on the Demands of Tobacco, 1770	405	(3)
Benjamin Franklin on How to Get On in Philadelphia (c. 1730--c. 1750), 1793	408	(3)
John Adams on His Legal Education, 1758	411	(5)
Essays
John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, and the Practice of Law	416	(14)
Richard D. Brown
The Symbolic World of the Tobacco Planter	430	(12)
Timothy H. Breen
Settling the Backcountry	442	(41)
Documents
The Reverend Charles Woodmason Views the Backcountry in the 1760s	443	(5)
Governor William Tryon Assesses the Prospects for Life in the North Carolina Backcountry, 1765	448	(1)
Bishop August Gottlieb Spangenberg on Moravian Plans for the Settlement of Wachovia, 1752	449	(1)
Adelaide L. Fries
An Advocate of Expansion to the Mississippi River, 1751	450	(1)
Olaudah Equiano Recalls His Enslavement, 1750s	451	(5)
Report on a Runaway Slave Community in the Virginia Mountains, 1729	456	(1)
Essays
Slave Life in Virginia's Piedmont	457	(15)
Philip D. Morgan
Moravian Ideals and North Carolina Backcountry Realities	472	(11)
Daniel B. Thorp
The Impact of the European Wars for Empire on America	483	(56)
Documents
Christopher Gist on Promises and Threats in Indian Diplomacy, 1751	484	(4)
Per Kalm on Indian Perceptions and Goals on the Frontier, 1750	488	(4)
Canassatego's Speech, 1742	492	(2)
A Report on Imperial Conflict in the South, 1740	494	(1)
Lord Loudoun Views Imperial Conflict in the North, 1756	495	(2)
Mary Rowlandson Describes Her Captivity Among the Indians, 1682	497	(9)
John Williams on His Captivity Among the French, 1707	506	(3)
Essays
The Massacre at Fort William Henry: A Nineteenth-Century View	509	(6)
Francis Parkman
The ``Massacre'' at Fort William Henry: A Modern View	515	(12)
Ian K. Steele
The White Indians of Colonial America	527	(12)
James Axtell
The Sum of the Colonial Experience	539	(30)
Documents
Sarah Kemble Knight on Dutch and English in New York, 1704	540	(2)
Dr. Alexander Hamilton Surveys the Variety of Pennsylvania, 1744	542	(7)
Pelatiah Webster Describes the Uniqueness of Charleston, 1765	549	(3)
Janet Schaw on Her Visit to Wilmington, North Carolina, 1774	552	(2)
The Albany Plan of Union, 1754	554	(3)
Essays
Convergence and the Creation of a Colonial Culture	557	(12)
Jack P. Greene
Divergence in Four Colonial Cultures	569
David Hackett Fischer