572 Abigail Adams (1744-1818)
574 Letters to John Adams
574 [May 9, 1764: My faults]
574 [March 31, 1776: The passion for liberty]
576 [July 13, 1776: Independent states]
577 [August 14, 1776: The deficiency of education]
579 [April 10, 1782: Service to your country]
582 Letter to John Quincy Adams
582 [January 19, 1780: Great Necessities call out great Virtues]
583 Letters to Thomas Jefferson
583 [February 11, 1786: Surfeited with Europe]
585 [July 6, 1787: Thoughts on going]
586 [May 20, 1804: The pangs of separation]
587 Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
590 An Occasional letter on the female sex
593 from Common Sense
593 Introduction
594 Thoughts on the present state of American affairs
599 from The American crisis
599 Number 1
605 from The age of reason
605 Chapter I: The author's profession of faith
606 Chapter II: Of missions and revelations
608 Chapter IV: Of the Bases of Christianity
609 St. Jean de Crevecoeur (1735-1813)
611 from Letters from an American farmer
611 from Letter III: What is an American?
626 Letter IX: Description of Charles-Town; Thoughts on slavery; on physical evil; A melancholy scene
634 William Bartram (1739-1823)
635 from Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida
635 [from The Alligators]
639 Gustavus Vassa (Oloudah Equiano) (1745-1801)
640 from The interesting narrative of the life of Oloudah Equiano
640 [Chapter II:] Kidnapping and Enslavement