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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Maps | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Exploration | |
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| Excerpt: Cristobal Colon a Luis de Santangel | |
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| Greenlanders' Saga, c. 1000 | |
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| Christopher Columbus to Luis de Santangel, Official Notary for King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, 1493 | |
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| Jacques Cartier's First Voyage, 1534 | |
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| Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's Shipwreck off the Texas Coast, 1528-1536 | |
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| Jacques Marquette on Descending the Mississippi River with Louis Joliet, 1673 | |
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| Captain James Cook's Third Voyage, 1776-1780 | |
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| Osage Creation Account (Black Bear Clan Version), Recorded 1920s | |
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| Interpreting and Instructing New Peoples | |
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| Excerpt: La Relation des Montagnais | |
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| The Requerimiento, 1533 Version | |
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| Pedro de Castaneda de Najera on the Search for the Seven Cities of Cibola, 1540 | |
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| Rock Painting, Pecos River Valley, Texas, 1500s | |
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| Montagnais Indians on Their First Encounter with the French, Early 1500s | |
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| John Smith on the Powhatans, 1607-1616 | |
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| John Eliot's Translation of the Bible into the Massachusett Language, 1663 | |
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| Olaudah Equiano on Encountering Europeans, 1740s | |
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| Pontiac's Speech to an Ottawa, Potawatomi, and Huron Audience, 1763 | |
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| Founding and Governing | |
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| Excerpt: La Relation de Samuel de Champlain | |
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| Great Law of the Iroquois League, c. 1300s (recorded late 1800s) | |
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| Samuel de Champlain on Founding Quebec, 1608 | |
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| John Winthrop on Founding New England, 1630 | |
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| Laws for the Province of Pennsylvania, 1682 | |
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| Creek Leaders Meet the Trustees of Georgia, 1734 | |
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| Father Junipero Serra Writes from San Diego, 1770 | |
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| Catherine the Great's Response to a Petition to Establish a Russian Colony, 1788 | |
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| Social and Economic Life | |
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| Excerpt: Metodo de Gobierno que se Observa en Esta Mision de la Purisima Concepcion | |
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| Thomas Campanius Holm's Engraving of New Sweden, 1640s | |
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| Hans Sloane Observes Jamaica, 1687-1689 | |
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| Saukamappee on the Coming of Horses, Guns, and Smallpox, 1700s | |
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| Benjamin Franklin Becomes a Printer, 1714-1723 | |
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| Eliza Lucas to Mrs. Boddicott, 1740 | |
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| Runaway Advertisements, Mid-1700s | |
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| Mary Christina Martin's Case before the German Society of Pennsylvania, 1772 | |
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| Spiritual and Temporal Guidelines for a Texas Mission, Late 1700s | |
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| Slavery | |
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| Excerpt: Los Negros Fugitivos a le Rey de Espana | |
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| Francois Froger's Plan of Ft. St. Jacques, Gambia, 1695 | |
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| New Netherland Act Emancipating Certain Slaves, 1644 | |
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| Virginia Codes Regulating Servitude and Slavery, 1642-1705 | |
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| Louisiana's Code Noir, 1724 | |
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| Venture Smith's Account of Slavery and Freedom, 1700s | |
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| Afro-Floridians to the Spanish King, 1738 | |
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| George Whitefield Admonishes Southern Slaveholders, 1740 | |
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| Advertisement for a Slave Sale, Charleston, c. 1770s | |
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| Women and Colonialism | |
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| Excerpt: Lettre du Pere Jacques Gravier | |
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| Anne Bradstreet's Prologue to The Tenth Muse, 1650 | |
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| Marie de L'Incarnation to Her Son, 1667 | |
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| Deodat Lawson Describes Events at Salem, 1692 | |
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| Father Jacques Gravier Describes Indian Conversions at the Illinois Mission, 1694 | |
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| Maria de Jesus de Agreda and Catherine Tekakwitha, 1600s | |
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| Susannah Johnson Recalls Her Captivity, 1754-1757 | |
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| Phillis Wheatley's "On Being Brought from Africa to America," 1773 | |
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| Violent Conflict | |
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| Excerpt: Antonio de Otermin a Francisco de Ayeta | |
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| Francisco Lopez de Mendoza Grajales's Account of the Conquest of Florida, 1565 | |
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| Henri Joutel's Account of the Murder of La Salle, 1687 | |
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| Antonio de Otermin Describes the Pueblo Revolt, 1680 | |
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| Antoine Simon Le Page Du Pratz Describes French Conflict with the Natchez, 1729 | |
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| George Washington Recalls His Defeats at Fort Duquesne, 1754-1755 | |
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| Louis-Antoine de Bougainville's Journal of the Seven Years' War, 1756 | |
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| Ohio Indians Talk to the British, 1764 | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Editors | |