Daily Life Through American History In Primary Documents

Author Randall M. Miller

Publisher Greenwood Publishing Group

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Author

Randall M. Miller

Publisher

Greenwood Publishing Group

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Copyright

2012

ISBN13

9781610690331

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eBook

Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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Presents a large sweep of American history through the voices of the American people themselves. This work explores the daily lives of American people from colonial times to the present through primary documents that include diaries, letters, memoirs, speeches, sermons, pamphlets, and all manner of public and private writings from the people.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
About the Book.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Set Introduction.
Acknowledgments.
Chronology of Selected Events, 1492–1782.
1: Historical Overview.
2: Domestic Life.
3: Indian and Settler Relations in Early Virginia.
4: John Smith on the Settlement at Jamestown (1608).
5: Powhatan on John Smith and the English Settlement at Jamestown (ca. 1609).
6: John Rolfe, Letter Asking Permission to Marry Pocahontas (1614).
7: The Massacre of 1622.
8: The Indians of Virginia (1705).
9: Sending Wives and Servants to Early Virginia and Maryland.
10: The Virginia Company Sends Women to Virginia (1622).
11: Indenture of Servitude for Transportation to Virginia (1622).
12: An Indentured Servant's Letter to His Parents (1623).
13: John Hammond's Leah and Rachel, on Conditions in the Chesapeake Colonies (1656).
14: Plantation Life in Maryland.
15: A Dutch Traveler's Account of Plantation Life in Maryland (1679).
16: Food and Fare among Planters, Servants, and Artisans.
17: Dinner at the Governor's Mansion in Annapolis (1744).
18: An Artisan's and a Farmer's Regular Fare and Dress in Virginia (1740s–1760s).
19: Slave Resistance.
20: Slave Conspiracy in Virginia (1709).
21: A Camp of “Free Blacks” in North Carolina (1728).
22: Barn Burnings in South Carolina (1732).
23: Runaway Slave Advertisement from the Virginia Gazette (1767).
24: The Slave's Day on a Virginia Tobacco Plantation (1770s).
25: Servant Life in the Northern Colonies.
26: Beating a Maid in Massachusetts Bay Colony (1639).
27: Indenture of Servitude for Ship Passage (1696).
28: Indentured Servitude and Adjusting to Life in Pennsylvania: A German's Warning (1750).
29: Letter from a Swiss Settler in Pennsylvania (1769).
30: Regulating Morals and Education.
31: Massachusetts Blue Laws (1632–1638).
32: Massachusetts School Law (1647).
33: The Duke's Laws in New York (1664).
34: Social Improvem
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