The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America

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the columbia
documentary history
of race and ethnicity
in america

the columbia
documentary history
of race and ethnicity
in america

Edited by
r o n a l d h . b a y o r

c o l u m b i a u n i v e r s i t y p r e s s

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The Columbia documentary history of race and
ethnicity in America / edited by Ronald H.

Bayor.
p.
cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p.) and
index.
ISBN 0-231-11478-8 (alk. paper)

1. United States—Race relations—
History—Sources
2. United States—Ethnic

relations—History—Sources.
I. Bayor,
Ronald H., 1944–
E184.A1C57 2004

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2003067412

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Columbia University Press gratefully
acknowledges permission to reprint from the
following previously printed material:

Molefi Kete Asante, excerpts from The Afrocentric
Idea. Copyright � 1987 by Temple University.
Reprinted with the permission of Temple Uni-
versity Press. All rights reserved.
Excerpt from Travels by His Highness Duke Bernard

of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Through North America in
the Years 1825 and 1826, translated by William

Jeronimus, edited by C. J. Jeronimus. Copy-
right � 2001. Reprinted with the permission

of University Press of America.
Black Panther Party, “Platform and Program of
the Black Panther Party” (October 1966). Re-

printed with the permission of Frederika New-
ton and the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation.

Franz Boas, excerpts from “The Question of Ra-
cial Purity” from The American Mercury (October
1924): 163–169. Reprinted with the permis-

sion of Dr. Norman F. Boas.
Patrick J. Buchanan, “West’s Doors Closing?”

(Speech, June 7, 1993), from http://www.
buchanan.org/pa-93-0607.html. Copyright �

1993 by Patrick J. Buchanan. Reprinted with
the permission of the author.
Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton, ex-

cerpt from Blackpower: The Politics of Liberation in
America. Copyright � 1965 by Stokely Carmi-

chael and Charles V. Hamilton. Reprinted with

the permission of Random House, Inc.
Stephanie Chavez, “Touched by Fire; A Legacy of

Pain and Hope” from Los Angeles Times (Novem-
ber 16, 1992). Copyright � 1992 The Times
Mirror Company. Reprinted with permission.
Nicolas Collin, “Extract of the Most Noteworthy
Transactions during My Incumbency as Rector
at the Raccoon and Pensneck Congregations,
from September 30, 1773” from The Journal and
Biography of Nicholas Collin, 1746–1831, trans-
lated by Amandus Johnson. Copyright 1936 by

Amandus Johnson. Reprinted with permission.
(Continued on page 993)

In Loving Memory of my wife, Leslie

contents

i n t r o d u c t i o n

xvii
a c k n o w l e d g m e n t s

xxiii

chapter 1.
ethnicity in seventeenth-
century english america,
1600–1700
carol berkin
1

documents
A Letter from a Gentleman of the City
of New-York to Another, Concerning
the Troubles which happen’d in That
Province in the Time of the late Happy
Revolution, 1698
17
The Beginning, Progress, and
Conclusion of Bacon’s Rebellion in
Virginia, In the Years 1675 and 1676
25
Edward Winslow, “Chapter 7,” Good
Newes from New England, 1624
41
Peter Schaghen to the Directors of the
West India Company, 1626
47

[viii]
contents

Richard Frethorne to His Father and
Mother, March 20, April 2 and 3,
1623
48
Powhatan [Wahunsonacock] to John
Smith, 1609
50
Reverend Samuel Smith to Ichabod
Smith, January 1698/99
51
Declaration or Confession of [Roger]
Court Crotosse, 1684
52
“Whereas Hugh Gwyn . . .,” July 9,
1640
54
John Rolfe to Sir Thomas Dale, 1614
55
Petition of Jewish Merchants, January
1655
58
The Case of Maria Negro, 1681
60
Declaration Against the Proceedings of
Nathaniel Bacon, 1676
60
An Act Defining the Status of Mulatto
Bastards, December 1662
62
Petition of Richard Saltonstall, 1645
63
The Remonstrance of the Inhabitants of
Flushing, Long Island, Against the Law
Against Quakers and Subsequent
Proceedings, January 1, 1658
64
William Bradford Describes His
Encounter with Samoset, 1621
65
Rev. Johannes Megapolensis to the
Classis of Amsterdam, March 18, 1655
67

Statement Showing Wherein Capt.
Daniel Brodhead Has Exceeded the
Instruction Given by the Honorable
Richard Nicols, Governor General,
April 25, 1667
68
Petition of Marylanders, November 20,
1690 and the Response to the Petition
by John Coode and Kenelm
Cheseldine, December 22, 1690
69
Benjamin Tompson, New England’s
Crisis, 1676
74
Vincent Bigot’s Report, “Of the Piety
and Devotion of the Christian
Iroquois,” 1677
86
Testimony of Marmaduke Stevenson,
1659
87

chapter 2.
ethnicity in eighteenth-
century north america,
1701–1788
graham russell hodges
89

documents
Indian Women of Cabo San Lucas,
c. 1746
106
Detailed Reports on the Salzburger
Emigrants Who Settled in America,
1749
107
The Life, History, and Unparalleled
Sufferings of John Jea, the African
Preacher, c. 1800
110

contents
[ix]

Journal of Nicolas Collin, 1746–1831:
Extract of the Most Noteworthy
Transactions During My Incumbency as
Rector at the Raccoon and Pensneck
Congregations, from September 30,
1773
114
Life of the Reverend Devereux Jarratt,
Written by Himself: Excerpts, 1806
116
Itinerarium of Dr. Alexander
Hamilton, 1744
118
List of Different Nations and Tribes of
Indians, Early 1700s
124
J. Hector St. John Cre`vecoeur, “What
Is an American?” 1783
124
Miami Deaths of 1732, Report of Jean-
Charles d’Arnaud, 1732
130
The Independent Reflector, William
Livingston on Kings College, 1753
131
Thomas Jefferson, “Notes on the State
of Virginia,” 1783
133
“A Gouging Match”; “A Backwoods Ball
and Fight,” c. 1780s
137
Rev. Alexander Stewart to Rev. John
Waring, 1764; Rev. Samuel Auchmuty
to Rev. John Waring, 1761
141
Abigail Franks to Naphtali Franks, June
7, 1743
143
Daniel Horsmanden, The New York
Conspiracy, 1741
146

chapter 3.
the limits of equality:
racial and ethnic
tensions in the new
republic, 1789–1836
marion r. casey
151

documents
Sarah Cary to Samuel Cary, July 1792
169
Timothy Pickering to Anthony Wayne,
April 8, 1795
171
Constitution of The New-York Society
for the Information and Assistance of
Persons Emigrating from Foreign
Countries, 1794
175
The Naturalization of Immigrants,
1795
175
Edward Livingston, “Against the Alien
Act,” 1798
177
Red Jacket, “Against White Missions
Among the Indians,” 1805
180
United German Benefit Society, By-
Laws of the United German Benefit Society:
Agreed upon at Various Meetings, 1799
181
Act to Prohibit the Importation of
Slaves, March 2, 1807
182
Margaret Van Horn Dwight, A Journey
to Ohio in 1810
184
Petition of the Trustees of the
Congregation of Shearith Israel,
1811
186