Contents vii
55 CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH (1580-1631)
56 The General Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles
Book III, from Chapter II [Captain Smith's Captivity]
61 from A Description of New England [Growing Rich in the New World]
65 The Literature of Colonial America, 1620-1776
Introduction
65 A "City upon a Hill": New England
65 The Religious Background
67 The Voyage; The Landfall
68 Puritan Beliefs
69 Puritan Literature
70 Native Americans
70 Government Obedience
71 Women
72 A "Vale of Plenty": The South
74 Southern Intellectual Life
75 Toward the Revolution: The Eighteenth Century
75 The Enlightenment
76 Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening
77 Settlers and Skirmishes
79 WILLIAM BRADFORD (1590-1657)
80 Of Plymouth Plantation
81 Chapter IX: Of Their Voyage, and How They Passed the Sea; and of Their
Safe Arrival at Cape food
83 Chapter X: Showing How They Sought Out a Place of Habitation; and What
Befell Them Thereabout
87 Chapter Xl: The Remainder of Anno 1620
[The Mayflower Compact]
[The Starving Time]
[Indian Relations]
92 RELATED VOICES
COTTON RATHER
The Life of William Bradford, Esq.
92 JOHN WINTHROP (1588-1649)
93 from A Model of Christian Charity
95 ANNE BRADSTREET (ca. 1612-1672)
97 The Prologue
98 The Author to Her Book
99 Before the Birth of One of Her Children