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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Series Editors' Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Beginnings | |
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| English and African Background | |
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| Gregory King's A Scheme of the Income and Expence of the several Families of England, calculated for the Year 1688 | |
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| William Harrison's Description of England, 1577 | |
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| Gomes Eanes de Zurara's Chronicle of the Initial Portuguese Voyages to Sub-Saharan Africa, 1453 | |
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| How those caravels arrived at the river of Nile, and of the Guineas that they took | |
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| How the caravels set forth from the river, and of the voyage which they made | |
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| Olaudah Equiano Recounts his Life in Africa before Being Captured by Slave Traders, 1789 | |
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| Images of the New World | |
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| Amerigo Vespucci Discovers America, ca. 1570s | |
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| Amerigo Vespucci Describes his First (Third) Voyage to "America," 1505/6 | |
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| A Native American Warrior, ca. 1590 | |
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| John Smith, Of the Naturall Inhabitants of Virginia, 1624 | |
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| Pocahontas in England | |
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| John Smith on Pocahontas, 1624 | |
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| Illustration from John Lawson's A New Voyage to Carolina, 1709 | |
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| John Lawson's History of North Carolina, 1709 | |
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| Native American Lives | |
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| The Beginning of the World - Costanoan California Native American Story | |
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| A Dutch View of the Native Americans in the New Netherlands, from a Letter of Isaack de Rasieres to Samuel Blommaert, ca. 1628 | |
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| A French Jesuit Missionary Reports on Life Among the Illinois, 1675 | |
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| Joseph Francis Lafitau, Portrait of Iroquois and Huron Culture, 1724 | |
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| Borderlands | |
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| Dutch-Native American Relations Deteriorate: Kieft's War, 1640-1645 | |
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| The Natural Wonders of California: Jose de Galvez's Expedition, 1769-1770, as Recorded by Father (Franciscan) Juan Crespi | |
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| Pedro Fages Describes California Native Americans, 1775 | |
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| Natchez War in Louisiana, 1729-1730 | |
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| Founding Colonies | |
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| John Winthrop's A Modell of Christian Charity, 1630 | |
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| Slave and Servant Codes in the Seventeenth-Century English West Indies: Barbados Laws for Servants (and Slaves), 1652 | |
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| A Jamaica Act "For the better Ordering of Slaves," 1684 | |
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| The Concessions and Agreements of the Proprietors, Freeholders, and Inhabitants of the Province of West New Jersey, 1676/1677 | |
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| William Penn Purchases Land from the Lenape (Delaware) Indians, 1682 | |
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| Northern Colonies | |
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| Articles of Agreement Among the First Settlers of Springfield, Massachusetts, 1636 | |
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| John Winthrop Describes Congregational Minister John Eliot's Work as a Missionary to the Native Americans in Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1647 | |
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| The Raid on Deerfield, 1704 | |
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| "An account of y[superscript e] destruction at Deerfd febr 29, 1703/4," by Samuel Partridge | |
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| "Account of the Captivity of the Rev. Doctor Stephen Williams, Written by Himself" | |
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| "When I Was Carryed to Canada," attributed to Joseph Kellogg of Deerfield | |
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| Southern Colonies | |
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| Richard Frethorne's Letter from Jamestown to his Parents in England, 1623 | |
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| Witchcraft Trial of Jeane Gardiner, Bermuda, 1651 | |
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| Cases Before the Maryland Provincial Court in the 1650s | |
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| A Case of Adultery/Fornication, 1652 | |
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| A Case of Murder, 1653 | |
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| An Agreement about Marriage, 1657 | |
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| Hans Sloane, Observations on Living in Jamaica, 1707 | |
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| The Eighteenth Century | |
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| Politics | |
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| Address of the House of Representatives of the Massachusetts Bay to the King. November 22, 1728 | |
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| A Virginia Election Dispute, 1740 | |
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| A Contested Election in Pennsylvania, 1742 | |
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| Economy | |
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| Commerce at the Port of Bristol, Great Britain, July 2, 1731 | |
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| A New England Farmer's Expectations of Profit, 1742 | |
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| The Business of a South Carolina Commission Merchant, 1738 and 1740 | |
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| Empire | |
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| A Memorial Concerning the Fur Trade of the Province of New York: Cadwallader Colden to William Barnet, Governor of New York, November 10, 1724 | |
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| Lieutenant Governor William Gooch of Virginia to the Board of Trade, on the Need for a Tobacco Inspection Act, June 29, 1729 and February 27, 1731 | |
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| James Oglethorpe Promotes a New Colony in Georgia, 1732 | |
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| James Ramsay on the Abolition of the British Slave Trade, 1784 | |
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| Slavery | |
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| Lieutenant Governor William Gooch of Virginia to the Board of Trade, Comments about African American Slaves in Virginia. June 29, 1729 | |
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| New York Conspiracy Trials of 1741 | |
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| A Virginia Planter Instructs his Plantation Manager about Enslaved Workers, 1743/4 and 1754 | |
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| Runaway Servant and Slave Advertisements, as Published in Colonial Newspapers | |
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| Pennsylvania Gazette, Runaway Servants | |
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| Virginia Gazette, Runaway Slaves | |
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| South Carolina Gazette, Runaway Indian Slave, and South Carolina and American General Gazette, Runaway Slave | |
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| Everyday Life | |
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| Examination of Daniel Tice, 1765 | |
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| Brinton Farmhouse, Birmingham Township, Chester (Delaware) County, Pennsylvania, 1704 | |
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| Everyday Life in the Colonies as Seen through Probate Inventories and Wills | |
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| Inventory of Archibald Curry, laborer, Darby, Chester County, October 24, 1764 | |
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| Inventory and Will of Sarah McWilliams, East Nottingham, Chester County, March 15, 1765 | |
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| The Inventory of the Estate of Thomas Benedict late of Norwalk deceased taken this 28th day of June An. D. 1763 | |
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| Slaves in the Inventory of Thomas Beach, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica, May 1776 | |
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| Household Consumer Goods of the Comfortable and Prosperous | |
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| Colonial Taverns | |
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| Sarah Kimble Knight's Account of a Night at a Tavern, 1704 | |
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| James Birket's Cursory Remarks about his Tavern Accommodations, 1750 | |
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| Family and Gender Relations | |
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| Grand Jury Presentation of Martin Rierden, 1736 | |
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| From the Letterbook of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, 1742 | |
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| Politics of Gender Relations in Pennsylvania, 1730s-1760s | |
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| Scenes from the Life of a Great Tobacco Planter in Eighteenth-Century Virginia | |
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| William Byrd to Charles, Earl of Orrey (Great Britain), Virginia, July 5, 1726 | |
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| William Byrd of Westover's Diary, 1710, 1712 | |
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| Religion | |
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| The Anglican Clergy of Maryland Appeal to the Bishop of London about the State of the Church in Maryland, 1696 | |
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| Benjamin Franklin Offers his Opinion of the Great Revivalist, George Whitefield | |
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| Dr. Alexander Hamilton Comments on the Revivalist James Davenport, 1743 | |
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| James Ireland's Battle with Satan, Virginia, ca. 1760s | |
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| Culture | |
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| Cadwallader Colden [Coldengham, New York] to Mr. Peter Collinson [London, England], on Botany in America, November 13, 1742 | |
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| Books and Reading in Eighteenth-Century America | |
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| A Selection of Books from the Probate Inventory of Alured Popple, Governor of Bermuda, 1745 | |
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| A Bookseller's Catalog, Philadelphia, 1762 | |
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| The Practice of Reading in Early America, from the Journal of Esther Edwards Burr on the Reading of Richardson's Pamela, 1755 | |
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| Observing the Transit of Venus from Newport, Rhode Island, June 5, 1769 | |
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| Phillis Wheatley, On Virtue | |
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| Musical Instruction | |
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| William Charles Hulet, Advertisement for Music Lessons, 1770 | |
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| Young Ladies Conduct, Advice on Musical Instruction, 1722 | |
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| The Great War for Empire | |
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| Seven Years War Begins: George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 1754 | |
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| Description of the Battle of Ticonderoga, July 1758 | |
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| Pontiac's Rebellion: Captain George Etherington to Major Henry Gladwin, Michilimackinac, June 12, 1763 | |
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| Frontier Life during Warfare: Captain Lewis Ourry (Fort Bedford) to Colonel Henry Bouquet (Fort Pitt), August 27, 1763 | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |