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Voices of the American Past ✵ Documents in U.S. History Volume I Voices of the American Past ✵ Documents in U.S. History Volume I Fourth Edition Raymond M. Hyser J. Chris Arndt James Madison University Australia • Brazil • Canada • Mexico • Singapore • Spain • United Kingdom • United States Voices of the American Past Volume I Fourth Edition Raymond M.Hyser and J.Chris Arndt Publisher:Clark Baxter Senior Art Director:Cate Barr Senior Acquisitions Editor: Print Buyer:Doreen Suruki Ashley Dodge Rights Acquisition Account Manager: Associate Development Project Manager: Mardell Glinski Schultz Lee McCracken Permissions Researcher:Sue Howard Assistant Editor:Kristen Tatroe Production Service and Compositor: Editorial Assistant:Ashley Spicer International Typesetting and Composition Media Project Manager:Ronda Robinson Cover Designer:Lisa Henry Senior Marketing Manager:Janise Fry Printer:West Group Marketing Communications Manager: Cover Art:North Wind Picture Archives, Tami Strang Alfred,ME Associate Content Project Manager: Georgia Young © 2008,2004 Thomson Higher Education Thomson Wadsworth,a part ofThe Thomson 25 Thomson Place Corporation.Thomson,the Star logo,and Boston,MA 02210-1202 Wadsworth are trademarks used herein under USA license. For more information about our products, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.No part of this contact us at: work covered by the copyright hereon may be Thomson Learning Academic reproduced or used in any form or by any Resource Center means—graphic,electronic,or mechanical, 1-800-423-0563 including photocopying,recording,taping,web For permission to use material from this distribution,information storage and retrieval text or product,submit a request online at systems,or in any other manner—without the http://www.thomsonrights.com written permission of the publisher. Any additional questions about permissions Printed in the United States ofAmerica can be submitted by e-mail to 1 2 3 4 5 11 10 09 08 07 [email protected] Library of Congress Control Number: 2007924452 ISBN 10:0-495-09674-1 ISBN 13:978-0-495-09674-0 To our children, Kelsey,Marshall,and Christopher Hyser and Olivia and Ruby Arndt Thanks for all of your love and inspiration ✵ ✵ About the Authors J. Chris Arndt is a professor of history at James Madison University in Harrisonburg,Virginia,where he teaches courses in U.S.History,the American Revolution,the early Republic,and historical methods.He focuses his research interests on the study of states rights and economic change in antebellum America. Raymond M.Hyser is a professor of history at James Madison University in Harrisonburg,Virginia,where he teaches courses in U.S.history,U.S.business history,Gilded Age America,and historical methods.He focuses his research interests on the study of race and ethnicity in the Gilded Age. vii ✵ Contents PREFACE xv A GUIDE TO READING AND INTERPRETING DOCUMENTS xvii Diverse Beginnings 1 CHAPTER 1 1 The Spanish Letter of Columbus to Luis Sant’Angel (1493) 1 2 Early New York (1626) 3 3 Jesuit Comparison of French and Native Life (1657–1658) 6 4 Captain John Smith Describes the Founding of Jamestown (1607) 8 5 General Considerations for the Plantation in New England (1629) 11 6 William Bradford on Sickness among the Natives (1633) 12 7 “Captivity Account”of Mary Rowlandson (1675) 14 8 The Pueblo Revolt (1680) 15 9 Seventeenth-Century Florida as Described by Shipwrecked Englishman (1699) 17 Emerging Colonial Societies 21 CHAPTER 2 10 A Treaty Between the Five Nations and the New England Colonies (1689) 21 11 Petition of an AccusedWitch (1692) 24 12 “Pennsylvania,the Poor Man’s Paradise”(1698) 25 13 Of the Servants and Slaves in Virginia (1705) 28 14 Cotton Mather on the Evils of “Self-Pollution”(1723) 30 15 The Dilemma of New France (1724) 32 16 Eliza Lucas,a Modern Woman (1741–1742) 35 Toward an American Identity 38 CHAPTER 3 17 “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”(1741) 38 18 A Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge among the British Plantations of America (1743) 41 ix
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