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Contents
Front Matter
Introduction
I.
Native American and Ethnographic Texts
1.
Introduction
2.
The Peyote Cult (Plains)
3.
Of the Girl who married Mount Katahdin (Penobscot)
4.
The Origin of Disease and Medicine
5.
How Glooskap went to England and France (Passamaquoddy)
II.
Christopher Columbus
6.
Introduction
7.
Journal of the First Voyage to America, 1492-1493 (Excerpt)
8.
Narrative of the Third Voyage, 1498-1500 (Excerpt)
III.
Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
9.
Introduction
10.
Prologue
11.
Chapter VII: The Character of the Country (Excerpt)
12.
Chapter VIII: We Go from Aute (Excerpt)
13.
Chapter X: The Assault from the Indians (Excerpt)
14.
Chapter XII: The Indians Bring Us Food (Excerpt)
15.
Chapter XXI: Our Cure of Some of the Afflicted
16.
Chapter XXIV: Customs of the Indians of That Country (Excerpt)
17.
Chapter XXXII: The Indians Give Us the Hearts of Deer (Excerpt)
18.
Chapter XXXIII: We See Traces of Christians (Excerpt)
19.
Chapter XXXIV: Of Sending for the Christians (Excerpt)
IV.
The Requerimiento
20.
Requerimiento
V.
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680
21.
Introduction
22.
Letter on the Pueblo Revolt
23.
HOW THE SPANIARDS CAME TO SHUNG-OPOVI, HOW THEY BUILT A MISSION, AND HOW THE HOPI DESTROYED THE MISSION
VI.
William Bradford
24.
Preface
25.
Chapter 9: Of their voyage, and how they passed the sea; and of their safe arrival at Cape Cod
26.
The remainder of Anno 1620 (Excerpt)
27.
Anno Dom: 1623
28.
Anno Dom: 1628 (Excerpt)
29.
Anno Dom: 1637 (Excerpt)
30.
Anno Dom: 1642
VII.
Thomas Morton
31.
New English Canaan (Excerpt)
VIII.
Anne Bradstreet
32.
Introduction
33.
The Prologue
34.
The Author to Her Book
35.
The Flesh and the Spirit
36.
In Honour of the High and Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth
37.
Letter: To My Dear Children
IX.
Mary Rowlandson
38.
The First Remove
39.
The Second Remove
40.
The Third Remove
41.
The Fifth Remove
42.
The Eighth Remove
43.
The Twelfth Remove
44.
The Thirteenth Remove (Excerpt)
45.
The Eighteenth Remove
46.
The Twentieth Remove (Excerpt)
X.
Cotton Mather
47.
Wonders of the Invisible World: The Author's Defence
48.
Wonders of the Invisible World: The Trial of Martha Carrier at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Salem, August 2, 1692
49.
Decennium Luctuosum: An History of Remarkable Occurrences in the Long War
XI.
Jonathan Edwards
50.
Introduction
51.
Personal Narrative (Excerpt)
52.
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (Excerpt)
53.
Sarah Pierrepont Edwards on Conversion
XII.
Thomas Paine
54.
A Short Video About Thomas Paine
55.
Introduction
56.
Common Sense (Excerpt)
57.
The Age of Reason (Excerpt)
XIII.
Thomas Jefferson
58.
Introduction
59.
Notes on the State of Virginia (Excerpt)
60.
Letter to Nathaniel Burwell
XIV.
Toussaint L'Ouverture
61.
Introductory Video
62.
Toussaint's Constitution (Excerpt)
XV.
Briton Hammon
63.
A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man...
XVI.
Prince Hall
64.
Introduction
65.
A Charge Delivered to the African Lodge
XVII.
Phillis Wheatley
66.
"On Being Brought from Africa to America"
XVIII.
Judith Sargent Murray
67.
Desultory Thoughts Upon the Utility of encouraging a degree of Self-Complacency especially in Female Bosoms
68.
On the Equality of the Sexes
XIX.
Susanna Rowson
69.
Charlotte Temple: Volume I
70.
Charlotte Temple: Volume II
XX.
Edgar Allan Poe
71.
Introduction to Poe
72.
The Black Cat
73.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
XXI.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
74.
Introduction
75.
The Minister's Black Veil
76.
Young Goodman Brown
XXII.
Walt Whitman
77.
Song of Myself
XXIII.
Mark Twain
78.
Introduction
79.
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
80.
The One Million Pound Banknote
Back Matter
List of Full-Text Links to Texts from This Edition
The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature
About The Book
An OER Anthology of Earlier American Literature, to 1899
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