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Early American History
Society, Politics and Culture
First Edition
Edited by Christopher A. Cameron
University of North Carolina–Charlotte
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Contents
Chapter 1: Native North America to 1500
1
Navajo Creation Story
2
Cherokee Origins Story
2
Trickster Tale
4
Selection from Iroquois Constitution
5
Native American Nations and Linguistic Regions
8
Chapter 2: European Exploration
and Colonization
11
Amerigo Vespucci Landing in America
12
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
12
Ewaipanoma15
The King of Congo Writes to the King of Portugal
15
El Requerimiento
17
Chapter 3: The Southern Colonies
in the 17th Century
21
Declaration of Edward Waterhouse
22
Richard Frethorne Letter
26
Nathaniel Bacon’s Declaration
28
Fray Alonso de Benavides Discusses New Mexico
Eager for Conversion
30
Pedro Naranjo on the Pueblo Revolt
31
Chapter 4: The Northern Colonies
in the 17th Century
35
John Winthrop, “A Modell of Christian Charity”
36
The Trial of Anne Hutchinson
39
Poems of Anne Bradstreet
41
Cotton Mather Describes the Indians of Massachusetts
43
William Penn Describes the Colony of Pennsylvania
43
Chapter 5: Colonial America at Midcentury
47
Jonathan Edwards Describes the Great Awakening
48
Dr. Alexander Hamilton on the New Lights
49
Father Abraham’s Speech
50
The Life and Dying Speech of Arthur
56
John Adams, “A Dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law”
60
Chapter 6: The Seven Year’s War and
the Colonial Crisis
73
Delaware Prophet Neolin’s Journey to the Master of Life
74
Proclamation of 1763
77
The Stamp Act Congress
79
Virginia Resolves
81
Paul Revere’s Engraving of the Boston Massacre
83
Chapter 7: The American Revolution
85
The Olive Branch Petition
86
The Declaration of Independence
88
Statue of George III Demolished
91
Phillis Wheatley, Letter to Samson Occom
91
Benjamin Rush, Thoughts on Female Education92
Chapter 8: Choosing the Constitution
101
The Articles of Confederation
102
The Virginia and New Jersey Plans
108
James Madison, Federalist No. 10112
Selection from the Brutus Essays
117
Mercy Otis Warren on the New Constitution
125
Chapter 9: Politics and Society in the 1790s
131
Thomas Jefferson, “Those Who Labor in the Earth”
132
Alexander Hamilton’s Report on Manufactures
133
Richard Allen on the Founding of the AME Church
135
Judith Sargent Murray, On the Equality of the Sexes
141
The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
145
Chapter 10: Jefferson’s Presidency
to the War of 1812
153
Selection from Jefferson, Inaugural Address
154
Thomas Jefferson’s Indian Policy
156
William Tecumseh’s Speech to Governor Harrison
159
A Boxing Match, or Another Bloody Nose for John Bull
161
The Hartford Convention, 1814
162
Chapter 11: Jacksonian America
165
James Forten, Letters from a Man of Colour
166
Harriet Hanson Robinson on Her Labor in a Lowell Textile Mill
168
John Ridge Letter to Albert Gallatin
171
King Andrew the Tyrant
174
Andrew Jackson’s Farewell Address
175
Chapter 12: Evangelicalism and its Discontents
181
William Ellery Channing, Unitarian Christianity
182
Peter Cartwright on Revivals
190
Charles Grandison Finney, Lectures on Revivals of Religion
191
George Bancroft, An Oration Delivered Before
the Adelphi Society of Williamstown College
195
Henry Bellows, The Influence of the Trading Spirit
upon the Social and Moral Life of America
202
Chapter 13: Nineteenth Century Slavery
George Fitzhugh, Slavery a Positive Good
207
208
Harriet Jacobs, Selection from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl209
Frederick Douglass, Selection from Narrative of the Life
of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Written by Himself211
Bennet Barrow, Plantation Journal
214
Mary Chestnut On Her Hatred of Slavery
215
Chapter 14: Abolitionism
219
Selection from David Walker’s Appeal to the Coloured
Citizens of the World
220
The Liberator, Opening Editorial
222
Freedom’s Journal, Opening Editorial
224
Selection from The Confessions of Nat Turner225
Sojourner Truth, “Ain’t I a Woman Speech”
229
Chapter 15: The Women’s Rights Movement
231
Sarah Grimke, Selection from “Letters on the Equality
of the Sexes”
232
Angelina Grimke, An Appeal to the Christian Women
of the South
234
Mariah Stewart, “Address to Afric-American Female Society”
236
Margaret Fuller, Selection from Woman in the Nineteenth Century237
Declaration of Sentiments
Chapter 16: Secessionism and the coming
of the Civil War
243
247
Charles Sumner, “Crime Against Kansas”
248
James Henry Hammond, Mudsill Speech
251
Abraham Lincoln, “Address before the Wisconsin State
Agricultural Society”
256
Jefferson Davis, Speech Before the US Senate
259
Crittenden Compromise
261
Chapter 17: The Civil War and Reconstruction
265
Lincoln’s Gettysburg and Second Inaugural Addresses
266
Letter from Confederate Soldier to Zebulon Vance
268
Frederick Douglass on the Abolition of Slavery
269
Mississippi Black Codes
271
Freedmen Seek Information on Loved Ones
273