Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
Condorcet
Writings on the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Condorcet (1743–1794) was the last of the great eighteenth-century French philosophes and one of the most fervent américanistes of his time. A friend of Franklin, Jefferson, and Paine and a member of the American Philosophical Society, he was well informed and enthusiastic about the American Revolution....
by Karen Vorbeck Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
She was real. She was rich and beautiful. She was tried as a witch in 1675--and survived.
Based on the lives of Mary Bliss Parsons and Sarah Lyman Bridgeman, My Enemy's Tears: The Witch of Northampton, takes us back to life in the Puritan settlements along the Connectict River, a terrifying...
In the Devil's Snare
The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Award-winning historian Mary Beth Norton reexamines the Salem witch trials in thisstartlingly original, meticulously researched, and utterly riveting study.
In 1692 the people of Massachusetts were living in fear, and not solely of satanic afflictions. Horrifyingly violent Indian attacks had...
Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem
Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1997
In this important book, Elaine Breslaw claims to have rediscovered Tituba, the elusive, mysterious, and often mythologized Indian woman accused of witchcraft in Salem in 1692 and immortalized in Arthur Miller's The Crucible.
Reconstructing the life of the slave woman at the center of the notorious...
by Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
The book “An Abolition Reader,” contains five complete manuscripts that are essential to understanding the abolitionist movement in the United States and in England:
“Abolition Fanaticism in New York,” by Frederick Douglass
“The Abolition of Slavery The Right of the Government...
The Slave Years 1750-1759
African-American Genealogy, #1
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2018
After hundreds of hours searching, this book consists of slave names, owners and more, most with exciting detail for each slave. True history and a keeper.
by Alice Morse Earle, Editor
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
This edition features
• illustrations
• linked Footnotes
FOREWORD.
IN the year 1770, a bright little girl ten years of age, Anna Green Winslow, was sent from her far away home in Nova Scotia to Boston, the birthplace of her parents, to be "finished" at Boston schools by Boston...
Institutional Slavery
Slaveholding Churches, Schools, Colleges, and Businesses in Virginia, 1680–1860
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
The traditional image of slavery begins with a master and a slave. However, not all slaves had traditional masters; some were owned instead by institutions, such as church congregations, schools, colleges, and businesses. This practice was pervasive in early Virginia; its educational, religious, and...
Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores
Common Law and Common Folk in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The early American legal system permeated the lives of colonists and reflected their sense of what was right and wrong, honorable and dishonorable, moral and immoral. In a compelling book full of the extraordinary stories of ordinary people, Elaine Forman Crane reveals the ways in which early Americans...
Love in the Time of Revolution
Transatlantic Literary Radicalism and Historical Change, 1793-1818
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
In 1798, English essayist and novelist William Godwin ignited a transatlantic scandal with Memoirs of the Author of "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman." Most controversial were the details of the romantic liaisons of Godwin's wife, Mary Wollstonecraft, with both American Gilbert Imlay...
The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 2
Printer and Publisher, 1730-1747
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Named "one of the best books of 2006" by The New York Sun
Described by Carl Van Doren as "a harmonious human multitude," Benjamin Franklin was the most famous American of his time, of perhaps any time. His life and careers were so varied and successful that he remains, even...
Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts
Essex County, 1629-1692
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
Distinguished by the critical value it assigns to law in Puritan society, this study describes precisely how the Massachusetts legal system differed from England's and how equity and an adapted common law became so useful to ordinary individuals. The author discovers that law gradually replaced religion...
Plymouth Colony
Its History & People, 1620-1691
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1986
This is the first truly complete treatment of the history and genealogy of Plymouth Colony. It includes a concise history of the colony, both chronologically and topically, and more than 300 biographical sketches of its inhabitants. Richly documented and illustrated with maps and photographs, the...
by Brycchan Carey
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
In the first book to investigate in detail the origins of antislavery thought and rhetoric within the Society of Friends, Brycchan Carey shows how the Quakers turned against slavery in the first half of the eighteenth century and became the first organization to take a stand against the slave trade.
Through...