The Human Tradition in Colonial America

Edited by Nancy L. Rhoden, Ian K. Steele

Not available to order

Publication date:

01 April 1999

Length of book:

323 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9780842026970

The Human Tradition in Colonial America is an entertaining as well an enlightening book that brings the colonial period to life through the stories of the colorful participants who helped mold the British dependency that would eventually become the United States.

Chapter 1 Introduction: Meeting Colonial Americans
Chapter 2 Alvar N?Òez Cabeza de Vaca: Conquistador and Sojourner
Chapter 3 Squanto: Last of the Patuxet
Chapter 4 Gabriel Sagard: A Franciscan among the Huron
Chapter 5 Anne Hutchinson, the Puritan Patriarchs, and the Power of the Spirit
Chapter 6 In Search of Pocahontas
Chapter 7 Daniel Clocker's Adventure: From Servant to Freeholder
Chapter 8 John Cotton Jr.: Wayward Puritan Minister?
Chapter 9 Isabel Montour: Cultural Broker on the Frontiers of New York and Pennsylvania
Chapter 10 Caspar Wistar: German-American Entrepreneur and Cultural Broker
Chapter 11 Lewis Morris Jr.: British American Officeholder
Chapter 12 Pierre Pouchot: A French Soldier Views America
Chapter 13 George Whitefield: Transatlantic Revivalist
Chapter 14 Samson Occom: Mohegan Leader and Cultural Broker
Chapter 15 Susannah Johnson: Captive
Chapter 16 Bryan Sheehan: Servant, Soldier, Fisherman
Chapter 17 Olaudah Equiano: An African in Slavery and Freedom
Chapter 18 Index

A very rich collection that explores the enormous diversity of the people of colonial America. For all their differences they had one huge problem in common: trying to live in a difficult world that was new to them all. Here is the true beginning of Ameri