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The Heath Anthology of American Literature Volume A: Colonial Period to 1800

ISBN: 9780618532971 | 0618532978
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 12/13/2004

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SummaryTable of Contents
Unrivaled diversity and teachability have made "The Heath Anthology "a best-selling text since the publication of its first edition in 1989. In presenting a more inclusive canon of American literature, "The Heath Anthology "continues to balance the traditional, leading names in American literature with lesser-known writers and to build upon the anthology's other strengths: its apparatus and its ancillaries.Available in five volumes for greater flexibility, the Fifth Edition offers thematic clusters to stimulate classroom discussions and to show... MORE
Prefacexxv
COLONIAL PERIOD: TO 17001(564)
Native American Culture and Traditions
2(3)
The Europeans Arrive
... MORE5(3)
New World Cultures
8(3)
New World Literatures
11(5)
Native American Oral Literatures
16(97)
Native American Oral Narrative
19(47)
Talk Concerning the First Beginning (Zuni)
22(14)
Changing Woman and the Hero Twins after the Emergence of the People (Navajo)
36(13)
Wohpe and the Gift of the Pipe (Lakota)
49(2)
The Origin of Stories (Seneca)
51(3)
Iroquois or Confederacy of the Five Nations (Iroquois)
54(3)
Iktomi and the Dancing Ducks (Christine Dunham, Oglala Sioux)
57(2)
Raven and Marriage (Tlingit)
59(5)
The Bungling Host (Hitchiti)
64(1)
Creation of the Whites (Yuchi)
65(1)
Native American Oral Poetry
66(47)
Zuni Poetry
69(20)
Sayatasha's Night Chant
69(20)
Aztec Poetry
89(3)
The Singer's Art
89(1)
Two Songs
90(1)
Like Flowers Continually Perishing (Ayocuan)
91(1)
Inuit Poetry
92(5)
Song (Copper Eskimo)
92(1)
Moved (Uvavnuk, Iglulik Eskimo)
93(1)
Improvised Greeting (Takomaq, Iglulik Eskimo)
93(1)
Widow's Song (Quernertoq, Copper Eskimo)
94(1)
My Breath (Orpingalik, Netsilik Eskimo)
95(2)
A Selection of Poems
97(9)
Deer Hunting Song (Virsak Vai-i, O'odham)
97(1)
Love Song (Aleut)
98(1)
Song of Repulse to a Vain Lover (To'ak, Makah)
98(1)
A Dream Song (Annie Long Tom, Clayoquot)
99(1)
Woman's Divorce Dance Song (Jane Green)
99(1)
Formula to Secure Love (Cherokee)
100(1)
Formula to Cause Death (A'yunini the Swimmer, Cherokee)
101(1)
Song of War (Blackfeet)
102(1)
War Song (Crow)
102(1)
Song of War (Odjib'we, Anishinabe)
103(1)
War Song (Young Doctor, Makah)
103(1)
Song of Famine (Holy-Face Bear, Dakota)
104(1)
Song of War (Two Shields, Lakota)
104(1)
Song of War (Victoria, Tohona O'odham)
105(1)
Cluster: America in the European Imagination
106(13)
Thomas More
109(1)
from Utopia
109(1)
Michel de Montaigne
109(1)
from Of Cannibals
109(1)
Theodor Galle, after a drawing by Jan van der Straet [Stradanus]
110(1)
America, c. 1575
110(1)
John Donne
111(1)
Elegie XIX, To his Mistris Going to Bed
111(1)
Francis Bacon
112(1)
from New Atlantis
112(1)
New Spain
113(101)
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)
119(13)
from Journal of the First Voyage to America, 1492-1493
120(8)
from Narrative of the Third Voyage, 1498-1500
128(4)
Cluster: Cultural Encounters - A Critical Survey
132(4)
Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932)
134(1)
from The Significance of the Frontier in American History
134(1)
Andrew Wiget
135(1)
from Reading Against the Grain: Origin Stories and American Literacy History
135(1)
Annette Kolodny
136(1)
from Letting Go Our Grand Obsessions: Notes Toward a New Literary History of the American Frontiers
136(1)
Mary Louise Pratt
136(1)
from Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation
136(1)
Paul Gilroy
137(1)
from The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness
137(1)
Paula M.L. Moya and Ramon Saldivar
138
from Fictions of the Trans-American Imaginary
138
Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1490?-1556?)
136(16)
from Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
141(11)
Prologue
141(1)
from Chapter VII, The Character of the Country
142(1)
from Chapter VIII, We Go from Aute
143(2)
from Chapter X, The Assault from the Indians
145(1)
from Chapter XI, Of What Befel Lope de Oviedo with the Indians
145(1)
from Chapter XXI, Our Cure of Some of the Afflicted
146(1)
from Chapter XXIV,. Customs of the Indians of That Country
147(1)
from Chapter XXVII, We Moved Away and Were Well Received
148(1)
from Chapter XXXII, The Indians Give Us the Hearts of Deer
149(1)
from Chapter XXXIII, We See Traces of Christians
150(1)
from Chapter XXXIV, Of Sending for the Christians
151(1)
Fray Marcos de Niza (1495?-1542)
152(4)
from A Relation of the Reverend Father Fray Marcos de Niza, Touching His Discovery of the Kingdom of Ceuola or Cibola...
153(3)
Pedro de Casteñeda (1510?-1570?)
156(3)
from The Narrative of the Expedition of Coronado
157(2)
Chapter XXI, Of how the army returned to Tiguex and the general reached Quivira
Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá (1555-1620)
159(19)
from The History of New Mexico
160(18)
from Canto I, Which sets forth the outline of the history
160(2)
Canto XIV, How the River of the North was discovered and the trials that were borne in discovering it...
162(16)
Canto XXX, How the new General...went to take leave of Luzcoija, and the battle he had with the Spaniards
The Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe in 1531
178(8)
from The History of the Miraculous Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe in 1531, 1649
179(7)
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695)
186(9)
48, In Reply to a Gentleman from Peru, Who Sent Her Clay Vessels While Suggesting She Would Better Be a Man
188(4)
94, Which Reveals the Honorable Ancestry of a High-Born Drunkard
192(1)
317, Villancico VI, from "Santa Catarina," 1691
193(2)
Don Antonio de Otermin (fl. 1680)
195(8)
Letter on the Pueblo Revolt of 1680
196(7)
The Coming of the Spanish and the Pueblo Revolt (Hopi)
203(4)
The Coming of the Spanish and the Pueblo Revolt (Hopi)
203(4)
Don Diego de Vargas (?-1704)
207(7)
from Letter on The Reconquest of New Mexico, 1692
208(6)
New France
214(21)
René Goulaine de Laudonnière (fl. 1562-1582)
216(3)
from A Notable Historie Containing Foure Voyages Made by Certaine French Captaines unto Florida
216(3)
Samuel de Champlain (1570?-1635)
219(5)
from The Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, 1604-1618
220(4)
from The Voyages to the Great River St. Lawrence, 1608-1612
220(3)
from The Voyages of 1615
223(1)
The Jesuit Relations
224(11)
from The Relation of 1647, by Father Jerome Lalemant
226(9)
Chesapeake
235(54)
Thomas Harriot (1560-1621)
237(10)
from A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
239(8)
Edward Maria Wingfield (1560?-1613?)
247(8)
from A Discourse of Virginia
248(7)
John Smith (1580-1631)
255(15)
from The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles
258(1)
from Book III, Chapter 2 [Smith as captive at the court of Powhatan in 1608]
258(2)
from Book III, Chapter 8 [Smith's journey to Pamaunkee]
260(4)
from A Description of New England
264(3)
from Advertisements for the Unexperienced Planters of New-England, or Anywhere, Or the Path-way to Experience to Erect a Plantation [Review of the colonies planted in New England and Virginia]
267(3)
Richard Frethorne (fl. 1623)
270(3)
from Richard Frethorne, to His Parents (Virginia, 1623)
270(3)
Nathaniel Bacon (1647-1676)
273(7)
Nathaniel Bacon Esq'r his Manifesto Concerning the Present Troubles in Virginia
275(5)
James Revel (1640s?-?)
280(9)
The Poor, Unhappy Transported Felon
282(7)
New England
289(276)
Thomas Morton (1579?-1647?)
294(13)
from New English Canaan
296(11)
from Book I, Containing the originall of the Natives, their manners & Customes, with their tractable nature and love towards the English
296(1)
from Chapter IV, Of their Houses and Habitations
296(1)
from Chapter VI, Of the Indians apparell
296(1)
Chapter VIII, Of their Reverence, and respect to age
297(1)
Chapter XVI, Of their acknowledgment of the Creation, and immortality of the Soule
297(1)
from Chapter XX, That the Salvages live a contended life.
298(1)
from Book III, Containing a description of the People that are planted there, what remarkable Accidents have happened there since they were settled, what Tenents they hould, together with the practise of their Church
299(1)
from Chapter I, Of a great League made with the Plimmouth Planters after their arrivall, by the Sachem of those Territories
299(1)
from Chapter V, Of a Massacre made upon the Salvages at Wessaguscus
300(1)
from Chapter VII, Of Thomas Mortons entertainement at Plimmouth, and castinge away upon an Island
300(1)
from Chapter XIV, Of the Revells of New Canaan
301(1)
Chapter XV, Of a great Monster supposed to be at Ma-re-Mount; and the preparation made to destroy it
303(1)
Chapter XVI, How the 9. worthies put mine Host of Ma-re-Mount into the inchaunted Castle at Plimmouth, and terrified him with the Monster Briareus
306(1)
John Winthrop (1588-1649)
307(17)
from A Modell of Christian Charity
309(8)
from The Journal of John Winthrop
317(7)
William Bradford (1590-1657)
324(23)
from Of Plymouth Plantation
326(21)
from Book I
326(1)
from Chapter I, The Separatist Interpretation of the Reformation in England 1550-1607
326(1)
from Chapter IX, Of their Voyage, and how they Passed the Sea; and of their Safe Arrival at Cape Cod
327(2)
from Book II
329(1)
from Chapter XI, The Remainder of Anno 1620 [The Mayflower Compact, The Starving Time, Indian Relations]
from Chapter XIV, Anno Domini 1623 [End of the"Common Course and Condition"]
333(1)
from Chapter XIX, Anno Domini 1628 [Thomas Morton of Merrymount]
334(1)
from Chapter XXIII, Anno Domini 1632 [Prosperity Brings Dispersal of Population]
337(1)
from Chapter XXXIII, Anno Domini 1637 [The Pequot War]
338(1)
from Chapter XXIX, Anno Domini 1638 [Great and Fearful Earthquake]
340(1)
from Chapter XXXII, Anno Domini 1642 [Wickedness Breaks Forth; A Horrible Case of Beastiality]
340(1)
from Chapter XXXIII, Anno Domini 1643 [The Life and Death of Elder Brewster]
343(1)
from Chapter XXXIV, Anno Domini 1644 [Proposal to Remove to Nauset}
345(2)
Roger Williams (1603?-1683)
347(20)
from A Key into the Language of America
349(16)
[Preface]: To my Deare and Welbeloved Friends and Countreymen, in old and new England
349(2)
Chapter XI, Of Travell
351
from Chapter XXI, Of Religion, the soule, &c.
256(106)
Chapter XXII, Of their Government and Justice
362(3)
To the Town of Providence
365(1)
Testimony of Roger Williams relative to his first coming into the Narragansett country
366(1)
Thomas Shepard (1605-1649)
367(27)
Autobiography
370(24)
Anne Bradstreet (1612?-1672)
394(20)
The Prologue [To Her Book]
396(2)
In Honour of...Queen Elizabeth
398(4)
The Author to Her Book
402(1)
To Her Father with Some Verses
402(1)
The Flesh and the Spirit
403(3)
Before the Birth of One of Her Children
406(1)
To My Dear and Loving Husband
406(1)
A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment
407(1)
In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and Half Old
408(1)
On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet, Who Died on 16 November, 1669, being but a Month, and One Day Old
408(1)
Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666
409(1)
To My Dear Children
410(4)
Michael Wigglesworth (1631-1705)
414(9)
from The Diary of Michael Wigglesworth
415(4)
A Song of Emptiness
419(4)
The Bay Psalm Book (1640); The New England Primer (1683?)
423(14)
from The Bay Psalm Book
425(2)
from "The Preface" by John Cotton
425(2)
Psalm 1
427(1)
Psalm 6
428(1)
Psalm 8
429(1)
Psalm 19
430(1)
Psalm 23
431(2)
Psalm 137
433(1)
from The New England Primer
434(3)
Alphabet
434(1)
The Dutiful Child's Promises
435(1)
Verses
435(1)
The Death of John Rogers
436(1)
Mary White Rowlandson [Talcott] (1637?-1711)
437(31)
from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
440(28)
Edward Taylor (1642?-1729)
468(28)
from God's Determinations
472(7)
The Preface
472(1)
The Souls Groan to Christ for Succour
473(1)
Christs Reply
474(4)
The Joy of Church Fellowship rightly attended
478(1)
from Occasional Poems
479(3)
4, Huswifery
479(1)
6, Upon Wedlock, & Death of Children
480(2)
from Preparatory Meditations, First Series
482(3)
Prologue
482(1)
6, Another Meditation at the same time.
483(1)
8, Meditation. Joh. 6.51. I am the Living Bread.
484(1)
from Preparatory Meditations, Second Series
485(7)
1, Meditation. Col. 2.17. Which are Shaddows of things to come and the body is Christ
485(2)
26, Meditation. Heb. 9.13.14. How much more shall the blood of Christ, etc.
487(1)
50, Meditation. Joh. 1.14. Full of Truth
488(2)
115, Meditation. Cant. 5:10. My Beloved.
490(2)
from A Valediction to all the World preparatory for Death 3d of the 11m 1720 Version 1
492(4)
Cant. 3, Valediction, to the Terraqueous Globe
492(2)
A Fig for thee Oh! Death, Version 2
494(2)
Samuel Sewall (1652-1730)
496(11)
from The Diary of Samuel Sewall
498(3)
The Selling of Joseph, A Memorial
501(5)
My Verses upon the New Century [Jan. 1, 1701]
506(1)
Cotton Mather (1663-1728)
507(26)
from The Wonders of the Invisible World
509(5)
[The Devil Attacks the People of God]
509(3)
V. The Trial of Martha Carrier at The Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held by Adjournment at Salem, August 2, 1692.
512(2)
from Magnalia Christi Americana; or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England
514(10)
from A General Introduction
514(3)
Galeacius Secundus: The Life of William Bradford, Esq., Governor of Plymouth Colony
517(7)
from Decennium Luctuosum: An History of Remarkable Occurrences in the Long [Indian] War
524(3)
Article XX, A Notable Exploit: dux femina facti [Hannah Dustin's Captivity]
524(3)
from The Negro Christianized
527(5)
from Bonifacius.... With Humble Proposals...to Do Good in the World
532(1)
John Williams (1664-1729)
533(11)
from The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion
535(9)
A Sheaf of Seventeenth-Century Anglo-American Poetry
544(36)
Thomas Tillam (?-c. 1676)
545(1)
Uppon the first sight of New-England June 29, 1638
545(1)
John Wilson (c. 1588-1667)
546(2)
Anagram made by mr John Willson of Boston upon the Death of Mrs.Abigaill Tompson, And sent to her husband in virginia, while he was sent to preach the gospell yr
547(1)
John Josselyn (c. 1610-post 1692)
548(2)
Verses made sometime since upon the Picture of a young and handsome Gypsie, not improperly transferred upon the Indian Squa
549(1)
The Poem
549(1)
[And the bitter storm augments]
550(1)
John Saffin (1626-1710)
550(3)
[Sweetly (my Dearest) I left thee asleep]
551(1)
The Negroes Character
552(1)
George Alsop (1636?-1673?)
553(1)
Trafique is Earth's Great Atlas
553(1)
Sarah Whipple Goodhue (1641-1681)
553(1)
Lines to Her Family
554(1)
Benjamin Tompson (1642-1714)
554(2)
Chelmsford's Fate
555(1)
A Supplement
555(1)
Richard Steere (1643?-1721)
556(1)
On a Sea-Storm nigh the Coast
556(1)
Anna Tompson Hayden (1648-1720)
557(1)
Upon the Death of Elizabeth Tompson
557(1)
Elizabeth Sowle Bradford (1663?-1731)
558(1)
To the Reader, in Vindication of this Book
558(1)
Roger Wolcott (1679-1767)
559(3)
from A Brief Account of the Agency of the Honorable John Winthrop, Esq; In the Court of King Charles the Second, Anno Dom. 1662 When he Obtained for the Colony of Connecticut His Majesty's Gracious Charter
560(2)
Mary French (1687?-?)
562(20)
from A Poem Written by a Captive Damsel
563(2)
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY565
The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening
568(3)
Daily Life and the Woman's Sphere
571(1)
Literacy and Education
572(1)
Revolution and Confederation
573(3)
A Nation of Disparate Peoples
576(4)
From the Plow, to the Sword, to the Book
580
Settlement and Religion
582(218)
Sarah Kemble Knight (1666-1727)
584(18)
The Journal of Madam Knight
585(17)
Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce, Baron de Lahontan (1666-1715)
602(8)
from New Voyages to North-America . . . from 1683 to 1694, in Two Volumes
604(1)
from Volume I, A Discourse of the Interest of the French, and of the English, in North-America
604(1)
from Volume II, New Voyages to America, Giving an Account of the Customs, Commerce, Religion and Strange Opinions of the Savages of that Country
605(1)
from A Short View of the Humors and Customs of the Savages
607(1)
from An Account of the Amours and Marriages of the Savages
608(2)
William Byrd II (1674-1744)
610(23)
from The History of the Dividing Line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina and The Secret History of the Line
612(18)
Letter to Mrs. Jane Pratt Taylor (October 10, 1735)
630(3)
Cluster: On Nature and Nature's God
633(12)
John Locke (1632-1704)
635(1)
from Essay Concerning Human Understanding Chapter I, Of Ideas in general, and their Original
635(1)
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
636(1)
from Essay on Man, Epistle I
636(1)
I [Say first, of God above or Man below]
636(1)
VII [Far as creation's ample range extends]
637(1)
X [Cease, then, nor Order imperfection name]
638(1)
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
638(1)
from Treatise Concerning Religious Affections
638(2)
James Otis (1725-1783)
640(1)
from The Discourse of Nature and Government
640(1)
Anna Eliza Bleecker (1752-1783?)
641(1)
On the Immensity of Creation
641(1)
Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
642(1)
On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature
642(1)
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
643(1)
from The Age of Reason
643(1)
Chapter I, The Author's Profession of Faith
643(2)
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
645(32)
from Images of Divine Things
648(2)
On Sarah Pierrepont
650(1)
from A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God
651(5)
Personal Narrative
656(10)
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
666(11)
Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713-1755)
677(12)
from Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge,...Written by her own Hand many years ago
678(11)
John Woolman (1720-1772)
689(20)
from The Journal of John Woolman
692(11)
from Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes
703(6)
Francisco Palou (1723-1789)
709(10)
Life of Junipero Serra
710(1)
from Chapter XXII, The Expeditions Arrive at the Port of Monterey The Mission and Presidio of San Carlos Are Founded
from Chapter LVIII, The Exemplary Death of the Venerable Father Junipero
713(6)
A Sheaf of Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American Poetry
719(81)
Ebenezer Cook (1667-1733)
723(1)
The Sot-weed Factor; or, a Voyage to Maryland, &c.
723(18)
Susanna Wright (1697-1784)
741(1)
To Eliza Norris-at Fairhill
742(1)
Anna Boylens Letter to King Henry the 8th
743(1)
On the Benefit of Labour
746(1)
My Own Birth Day.-August 4th 1761
747(1)
Richard Lewis (1700?-1734)
748(1)
A Journey from Patapsko to Annapolis, April 4, 1730
749(9)
William Dawson (1704-1752)
758(1)
The Wager. A Tale
758(6)
Jane Colman Turell (1708-1735)
764(1)
Psalm CXXXVII. Paraphras'd August 5th, 1725
764(1)
[Lines on Childbirth]
765(1)
On Reading the Warning By Mrs. Singer
766(1)
To My Muse
767(1)
Lucy Terry (1730-1821)
768(1)
Bars Fight
768(1)
Thomas Godfrey (1736-1763)
769(1)
from The Prince of Parthia, A Tragedy
769(2)
Annis Boudinot Stockton (1736-1801)
771(1)
To Laura
771(1)
Epistle, To Lucius
772(1)
A Poetical Epistle, Addressed by a Lady of New Jersey, to Her Niece, upon Her Marriage
773(1)
The Vision, an Ode to Washington
775(2)
Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson (1737-1801)
777(1)
Upon the Discovery of the Planet By Mr. Herschel of Bath...
778(1)
On a Beautiful Damask Rose, Emblematical of Love and Wedlock
778(1)
On the Mind's Being Engrossed by One Subject
779(1)
Nathaniel Evans (1742-1767)
780(1)
Hymn to May
780(1)
Ode to the Memory of Mr. Thomas Godfrey
782(1)
To Benjamin Franklin, Occasioned by Hearing Him Play on the Harmonica
784(1)
Anna Young Smith (1756-1780)
785(1)
On Reading Swift's Works
785(1)
An Elegy to the Memory of the American Volunteers,...April 19, 1775
786(2)
Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton (1759-1846)
788(1)
from Ouabi: or the Virtues of Nature, An Indian Tale. In Four Cantos By Philenia, a Lady of Boston [Canto One]
789(1)
Stanzas to a Husband Recently United
792(1)
The African Chief
793(2)
Margaretta Bleecker Faugeres (1771-1801)
795(1)
The following Lines were occasioned by Mr. Robertson's refusing to paint for one Lady, and immediately after taking another lady's likeness, 1793
795(1)
To Aribert. October, 1790
796(1)
Poems Published Anonymously
797(1)
The Lady's Complaint
797(1)
Verses Written by a Young Lady, on Women Born to Be Controll'd
798(1)
The Maid's Soliloquy
799(1)
Voices of Revolution and Nationalism
800(287)
Handsome Lake (Seneca) (1735-1815)
802(2)
How America Was Discovered
803(1)
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
804(86)
The Way to Wealth
808(6)
A Witch Trial at Mount Holly
814(1)
The Speech of Polly Baker
815(2)
An Edict by the King of Prussia
817(3)
The Ephemera, an Emblem of Human Life
820(1)
Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America
821(4)
On the Slave-Trade
825(2)
Speech in the Convention
827(1)
from The Autobiography
828(1)
Part One [Twyford, at the Bishop of St. Asaph's, 1771]
828(1)
Part Two: Continuation of the Account of My Life Begun at Passy, 1784
876(1)
Part Three [Philadelphia, 1788]
886(4)
Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814)
890
To Fidelio, Long Absent on the great public Cause, which agitated all America, in 1776
892(2)
The Group
894(23)
from The Ladies of Castille
917(1)
from An Address to the Inhabitants of the United States of America
918
J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1735-1813)
821(136)
from Letters from an American Farmer
922(1)
from Letter I, Introduction
922(1)
from Letter II, On the Situation, Feelings, and Pleasures of an American Farmer
925(1)
from Letter III, What Is an American?
928(1)
from Letter V, Customary Education and Employment of the Inhabitants of Nantucket
933(1)
from Letter IX, Description of Charles Town; Thoughts on Slavery; on Physical Evil; a Melancholy Scene
934(1)
from Letter XII,. Distresses of a Frontier Man
941(16)
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
957(19)
from Common Sense
959(1)
Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs
959(6)
from The American Crisis
965(1)
Number 1
965(6)
from The Age of Reason
971(1)
from Chapter II, Of Missions and Revelations
971(1)
from Chapter III, Concerning the Character of Jesus Christ, and His History
972(1)
from Chapter VI, Of the True Theology
974(2)
John Adams (1735-1826) and Abigail Adams (1744-1818)
976(14)
from Autobiography of John Adams
977(2)
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, March 31, 1776
979(1)
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, April 14, 1776
979(1)
from Letter from John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, April 16, 1776
980(1)
from Letters from John Adams to Abigail Adams, July 3, 1776
981(2)
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, June 30, 1778
983(1)
Abigail Adams's Diary of Her Return Voyage to America, March 30-May 1, 1788
984(2)
from Letter from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, September 2, 1813
986(1)
from Letter from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, October 28, 1813
987(1)
from Letter from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, November 15, 1813
988(2)
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
990(39)
from Notes on the State of Virginia
994(1)
from Query VI, Productions, Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal, Buffon and the Theory of Degeneracy
944(1)
from Query XI, Aborigines, Original Condition and Origin
999(1)
from Query XIV, Laws
1003(1)
from Query XVII, Religion
1007(1)
from Query XVIII, Manners...Effect of Slavery
1009(1)
from Letter to James Madison, Oct. 28, 1785
1010(2)
from Letter to James Madison, Dec. 20, 1787
1012(3)
Letter to Benjamin Banneker, Aug. 30, 1791
1015(1)
Letter to the Marquis de Condorcet, Aug. 30, 1791
1015(1)
Letter to Edward Coles, Aug. 25, 1814
1016(2)
Letter to Peter Carr [Young Man's Education]
1018(4)
Letter to Benjamin Hawkins [Civilization of the Indians]
1022(1)
Letter to Nathaniel Burwell [A Young Woman's Education]
1023(2)
from Indian Addresses: To Brother Handsome Lake
1025(2)
Federalist and Anti-Federalist Contentions
1027(2)
The Federalist No. 6 (Alexander Hamilton)
1029(13)
The Federalist No. 10 ( James Madison)
1034(5)
An Anti-Federalist Paper, To the Massachusetts Convention
1039(3)
Toussaint L'Ouverture (1744?-1803)
1042(7)
Proclamations and Letters
1044(5)
Cluster: On the Discourse of Liberty
1049(18)
John Locke (1632-1704
1051(1)
from Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay
1051(1)
Chapter II
1051(1)
Chapter VII
1051(1)
Andrew Hamilton (1676-1741)
1052(1)
Closing Argument in the Libel Trial of John Peter Zenger
1052(2)
Hannah Griffitts (1727-1817)
1054(1)
The Female Patriots. Addres'd to the Daughters of Liberty in America, 1768
1055(1)
Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
1056(1)
Letter to Samson Occom
1056(1)
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
1057(1)
rom Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
1057(4)
Prince Hall (1735?-1807)
1061(1)
To the Honorable Council & House of Representatives for the State of Massachusetts-Bay....The Petition of a great number of Negroes who are detained in a state of Slavery in the Bowels of a free & Christian Country Humbly Shewing
1061(2)
Anonymous (fl. 1795)
1063(1)
Rights of Woman
1063(2)
Fisher Ames (1758-1808)
1065(1)
On the Dangers of Democracy
1065(2)
Patriot and Loyalist Songs and Ballads
1067(20)
"Patriot" Voices
1068(1)
The Liberty Song
1068(1)
Alphabet
1069(1)
The King's own Regulars, And their Triumphs over the Irregulars
1070(3)
The Irishman's Epistle to the Officers and Troops at Boston
1073(1)
The Yankee's Return from Camp
1074(2)
Nathan Hale
1076(2)
Sir Harry's Invitation
1078(1)
Volunteer Boys
1079(2)
"Loyalist" Voices
1081(1)
When Good Queen Elizabeth Governed the Realm
1081(1)
Song, for a Fishing Party near Burlington, on the Delaware, in 1776
1082(1)
Burrowing Yankees
1083(1)
A Birthday Song, for the King's Birthday, June 4, 1777
1083(1)
A Song
1084(1)
An Appeal
1085(2)
Contested Visions, American Voices
1087
Jupiter Hammon (1711-1806?)
1090(7)
An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penitential Cries
1092(2)
An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly, Ethiopian Poetess, in Boston, who came from Africa at eight years of age, and soon became acquainted with the gospel of Jesus Christ
1094(3)
James Grainger (1721?-1766)
1097(18)
from The Sugar-Cane. A Poem. In Four Books
1099(1)
from Book IV, The Genius of Africa
1099(16)
Samson Occom (Mohegan) (1723-1792)
1115(22)
A Short Narrative of My Life
1116(6)
A Sermon Preached by Samson Occom
1122(15)
Briton Hammon (fl. 1760)
1137(6)
Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprising Deliverance of Briton Hammon
1139(4)
Prince Hall (1735?-1807)
1143(9)
A Charge, Delivered to the African Lodge, June 24, 1797, at Menotomy
1145(7)
Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797)
1152(33)
from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself
1154(1)
from Chapter 1
1154(1)
Chapter 2
1162(1)
from Chapter 3
1171(1)
from Chapter 7
1176(1)
from Chapter 10
1179(6)
Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820)
1185(17)
Desultory Thoughts upon the Utility of encouraging a degree of Self-Complacency, especially in Female Bosoms
1187(3)
On the Domestic Education of Children
1190(3)
On the Equality of the Sexes
1193(7)
Occasional Epilogue to The Contrast, a Comedy, Written by Royal Tyler, Esq.
1200(2)
Ann Eliza Bleecker (1752-1783)
1202(9)
Written in the Retreat from Burgoyne
1204(2)
from The History of Maria Kittle
1206(5)
Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
1211(15)
The Power of Fancy
1212(4)
A Political Litany
1216(1)
To Sir Toby
1217(2)
The Wild Honey Suckle
1219(1)
from The Country Printer
1220(1)
On Observing a Large Red-streak Apple
1221(2)
The Indian Burying Ground
1223(1)
On the Causes of Political Degeneracy
1224(2)
Timothy Dwight (1752-1817)
1226(12)
from Greenfield Hill
1229(1)
Part II, The Flourishing Village
1229(1)
from Part IV, The Destruction of the Pequods
1234(4)
Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
1238(17)
To Mæcenas
1240(2)
Letter to the Right Hon'ble The Earl of Dartmouth per favour of Mr. Wooldridge
1242(1)
To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North-America, &c
1243(1)
Letter to the Rt. Hon'ble the Countess of Huntingdon
1244(1)
On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield 1770
1245(1)
On the Death of Dr. Samuel Marshall 1771
1246(1)
On Being Brought from Africa to America
1247(1)
A Farewell to America
1248(1)
To the University of Cambridge, in New England
1249(1)
Philis's Reply to the Answer in our Last by the Gentleman in the Navy
1250(2)
To His Excellency General Washington
1252(2)
Liberty and Peace, A Poem by Phillis Peters
1254(1)
Lemuel Haynes (1753-1833)
1255(17)
Liberty Further Extended: Or Free Thoughts on the Illegality of Slave-keeping
1258(10)
Universal Salvation
1268(4)
Joel Barlow (1754-1812)
1272(19)
The Prospect of Peace
1274(5)
The Hasty Pudding, A Poem, in Three Cantos
1279(10)
Advice to a Raven in Russia
1289(2)
Royall Tyler (1757-1826)
1291(43)
The Contrast, A Comedy in Five Acts
1293(41)
Hendrick Aupaumut (Mahican) (1757-1830)
1334(6)
from A Short Narration of My Last Journey to the Western Country
1336(4)
Hannah Webster Foster (1758-1840)
1340(20)
from The Coquette; or, the History of Eliza Wharton
1341(1)
Letter I, To Miss Lucy Freeman
1341(1)
Letter II, To the Same
1342(1)
Letter III, To the Same
1343(1)
Letter IV, To Mr. Selby
1344(1)
Letter V, To Miss Lucy Freeman
1345(1)
Letter VI, To the Same
1346(1)
Letter VIII, To Mr. Charles Deighton
1347(1)
Letter XI, To Mr. Charles Deighton
1348(1)
Letter XII, To Miss Lucy Freeman
1348(1)
Letter XIII, To Miss Eliza Wharton
1350(1)
Letter XVIII, To Mr. Charles Deighton
1351(1)
Letter LXV, To Mr. Charles Deighton
1352(1)
Letter LXVIII, To Mrs. M. Wharton
1353(1)
Letter LXXI, To Mrs. Lucy Sumner
1354(1)
Letter LXXII, To Mr. Charles Deighton
1356(1)
Letter LXXIII, To Miss Julia Granby
1358(1)
Letter LXXIV, To Mrs. M. Wharton
1359(1)
Susanna Haswell Rowson (1762-1824)
1360(13)
from Charlotte Temple
1361(1)
from Preface
1361(1)
from Chapter I, A Boarding School
1362(1)
Chapter VI, An Intriguing Teacher
1364(1)
from Chapter VII, Natural Sense of Propriety Inherent in the Female Bosom
1365(1)
from Chapter IX, We Know Not What a Day May Bring Forth
1367(1)
from Chapter XI, Conflict of Love and Duty
1369(1)
from Chapter XII, [How thou art fall'n!]
1371(1)
from Chapter XIV, Maternal Sorrow
1372(1)
Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)
1373
Somnambulism, a fragment
1375
AcknowledgmentsA-1
Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines I-1

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