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17c:
"To My Dear and Loving Husband" - poem by Anne
Bradstreet |
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1636:
Lord
Say and Sele - John Cotton Condemns Democracy |
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1637:
Transcript of the Trial of Anne Hutchinson |
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1642:
Massachusetts Bay School Laws |
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1642-1700:
Harvard College Admission and Graduation Requirements |
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1642-1705:
Slave Laws in Virginia |
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1670s:
“A Devil to Tempt and a Corrupt Heart to Deceive” -
John Dane Battles Life’s Temptations |
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1676:
Declaration and
Remonstrance - Governor William Berkeley |
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1676:
Nathaniel
Bacon's Manifesto |
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1677-1705:
Various
documents on Bacon's Rebellion
(additional documents) |
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1678:
"The Author to Her Book" - poem by Anne Bradstreet |
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1683:
"A Way to
Get Wealth" - Gervase Markham |
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1689:
A Letter from a Gentleman of the City of New York - on Leisler's
Rebellion |
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1689:
"From a gentleman of Boston to a friend in the countrey. [Signed] N.
N.?" - broadside |
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1689:
Letter Concerning Toleration - John Locke |
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1689:
"Memorable Providences, Relating to
Witchcrafts and Possessions" - Cotton Mather |
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1690:
Two Treatises of Government
-
John Locke |
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1692:
Death Warrant of Bridget Bishop |
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1692:
The Examination and Confession of Ann Foster at Salem Village
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1692:
Indictment of Bridget Bishop |
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1692:
Legal Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak of 1692 |
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1692:
Oral Examination of Bridget Bishop |
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1692:
Physical Examination of Bridget Bishop |
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1692:
Testimony Against Bridget Bishop |
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1692:
Transcripts of the Salem Witch Trials |
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1693:
Cases of
Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits - Increase Mather |
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1693:
Wonders of the Invisible World - Cotton Mather |
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1697:
William Penn's Plan of Union |
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1698:
The Story of Squanto - Cotton Mather |
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early 18c:
“The Pulpit Being My Great Design ” - A Minister in
Early 18th-Century New England |
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early 18c:
“Whom I Must Join” - Elizabeth Ashbridge, an
18th-Century Englishwoman, Becomes a Quaker |
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1700:
The
Selling of Joseph (a slave) - Samuel Sewall |
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1702:
Secret Diary of William Byrd |
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1704:
Boston News Letter (4 pages) - broadside |
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1704:
Governor Beverley on Bacon's Rebellion |
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1704:
“Wee made Good speed along” - Boston Businesswoman
Sarah Knight Travels From Kingston to New London |
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1705:
An act declaring the Negro, Mulatto, and Indian slaves
within this dominion, to be real estate |
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1705:
Money and Trade Considered With a Proposal for
Supplying the Nation with Money - John Law |
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1709:
“He Lov’d the English Extraordinary Well” - Enoe Will
Guides John Lawson Through the Carolina Interior |
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1709:
Indian Trader John Lawson’s Journal of Carolina |
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1712:
Curriculum of the Boston Latin Grammar School |
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1715:
Biennial Act |
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1721:
By the honourable Gurdon Saltonstall, Esq; Governour of His Majesty's
Colony of Connecticut in New-England, a proclamation for a publick
thanksgiving |
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1721:
Some meditations concerning our honourable gentlemen and
fellow-souldiers, in pursuit of those barbarous natives in the
Narragansit-Country; and their service there. By an unfeigned friend.
Re-printed at N. London, April 4" - broadside |
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1724:
The Black
Code of Louisiana |
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1724:
“They That Are Born There Talk Good English” - Hugh Jones Describes
Virginia’s Slave Society |
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1725:
Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity - Benjamin Franklin |
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1725:
"An
Englishman Tastes the Sweat of an African Slave" - illustration
by Serge Daget |
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1728:
"Cotton Mather" -
engraving by Peter Pelham |
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1729:
A Modest
Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper- Currency
by Ben
Franklin |
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1729:
“A Person Like Me, Oppress’d By Dame Fortune, Need Not
Care Where He Goes” - The “Infortunate” William Moraley Tries His Luck
in America |
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1730s:
Benjamin Franklin's Pursuit of Moral Perfection |
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1730s-40s:
The Great Awakening Comes to Weathersfield, CT - Nathan
Cole’s Spiritual Travels |
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1732, 1737:
Runaway
Slave Notices - South Carolina Gazette
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1733:
Founding Vision for Georgia - James Oglethorpe |
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1733-58:
Poor
Richard's Almanack - Benjamin Franklin (excerpts) |
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1735:
Defense of Peter Zenger - Andrew Hamilton |
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1735:
The Great Awakening in New Hampshire |
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1738:
Description of African Slavery |
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1739:
A Commons
House of Assembly Committee Report, in a Message to the Governor's
Council on the Stono Rebellion slave catchers (11/29) |
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1739:
Report from William Bull
regarding the Stono Rebellion (10/5) |
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1740:
"The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry" - Sermon by Gilbert
Tennent |
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1740:
"The Future Punishment of the Wicked" - sermon by Jonathan Edwards |
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1740:
"This indenture made the ninth day of September Anno Domini one
thousand seven hundred and forty . by and between [blank] on the one
part . Directors of the Manufactory Company of Boston . [Boston?
1740]" - broadside |
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1741:
“Fire, Fire, Scorch, Scorch!” - Testimony from the
Negro Plot Trials in New York |
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1741:
"Sinners in the
Hands of an Angry God" - sermon by Jonathan Edwards (7/8) |
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1742:
Against Revivalism - Charles Chauncy |
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1742:
Jonathan Edwards, from "Some Thoughts Concerning the
Present Revival of Religion in New England" |
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1744:
"Rules for Civility" - George Washington |
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1747:
"A
narrative of the uncommon sufferings, and surprizing deliverance of
Briton Hammon, a Negro man " - Briton Hammon |
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1750:
“As much land as they can handle” - Johann Bolzius
Writes to Germany About Slave Labor in Carolina and Georgia |
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1750:
“Packed Densely, Like Herrings” - Gottlieb Mittelberger
Warns His Countryman of the Perils of Emigration |
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1750:
“Work and labor in this new and wild land are very
hard” - A German Migrant in Philadelphia |
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1754:
On the Misfortune of Indentured Servants - Gottlieb Mittelberger |
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1757:
The Defense
of Slavery in Virginia |
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1757:
A Quaker Abolitionist Travels Through Maryland and
Virginia - The Journal of John Woolman |
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1768:
“It Will Require Much Time to Model the Manners and
Morals of these Wild Peoples” - Charles Woodmason Visits the Carolina
Backcountry |
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1769:
Broadside
Announcing the Sale of Slaves |
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1769:
“Shew Yourselves to be Freemen” - Herman Husband and
the North Carolina Regulators |
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1769-71:
“Kentucke, Which I Esteemed a Second Paradise” - Daniel
Boone Crosses the Mountains and Visits Kentucky |
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18c?:
“Your People Live Only Upon Cod” - An Algonquian
Response to European Claims of Cultural Superiority |
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mid-18c?:
Letter of
the Quaker woman, Increase Woodward to her son |
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late 18c?:
"The
Objections to the Taxation of our American Colonies by the Legislature
of Great Britain, briefly consider'd" - Soame Jenyns |
