The human tradition in colonial America / edited by Ian K. Steele and Nancy L. Rhoden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Steele, Ian K. (Ian Kenneth), 1937-

Rhoden, Nancy L. (Nancy Lee), 1965-

Series:

Human tradition in American history ; no. 1.

The human tradition in American history ; no. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Biography.

United States.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 323 pages : map ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Wilmington, Del. : SR Books, 1999.

Summary:

The Human Tradition in Colonial America is a vivid study of 16 individuals who lived during the colonial period of American history. Written by leading scholars, these mini-biographies highlight the exploits and actions of both well-known and obscure individuals whose lives provide insight into the time in which they lived.

Editors Ian K. Steele and Nancy Rhoden have assembled the stories of a diverse pool of characters, ranging from a former slave turned abolitionist to a Massachusetts mother who stirred up a controversy concerning gender relations in Puritan New England. While well-known figures such as Pocahontas and Squanto are included, this book focuses on a variety of less historically conspicuous individuals, such as Gabriel Sagard and Bryan Sheehan, whose stories illuminate life in the colonial period.

Readers will meet Robert Bolling, the relative of Thomas Jefferson who never quite achieved the success of his more famous relation, and the sixteenth-century Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez, Cabeza de Vaca, who explored Florida and later lived among the Native Americans. Readers will also be introduced to Pierre Pouchot, a French soldier, cartographer, and diplomat who wrote an account of the French and Indian War.

Entertaining as well as enlightening, The Human Tradition in Colonial America brings the colonial period to life through the stories of the colorful participants who helped mold the British dependency that would eventually become the United States.

Contents:

Introduction: Meeting Colonial Americans / Ian K. Steele xiii

1 Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca: Conquistador and Sojourner / Peter Stern 1

2 Squanto: Last of the Patuxet / Neal Salisbury 21

3 Gabriel Sagard: A Franciscan among the Huron / Cornelius J. Jaenen 37

4 Anne Hutchinson, the Puritan Patriarchs, and the Power of the Spirit / Marilyn Westerkamp 49

5 In Search of Pocahontas / Kathleen Brown 71

6 Daniel Clocker's Adventure: From Servant to Freeholder / Lois Green Carr 97

7 John Cotton Jr.: Wayward Puritan Minister? / Sheila McIntyre 119

8 Isabel Montour: Cultural Broker on the Frontiers of New York and Pennsylvania / Jon Parmenter 141

9 Caspar Wistar: German-American Entrepreneur and Cultural Broker / Rosalind J. Beiler 161

10 Lewis Morris Jr.: British American Officeholder / Michael Watson 181

11 Pierre Pouchot: A French Soldier Views America / Brian L. Dunnigan 197

12 George Whitefield: Transatlantic Revivalist / Nancy L. Rhoden 217

13 Samson Occom: Mohegan Leader and Cultural Broker / Margaret Connell Szasz 237

14 Susannah Johnson: Captive / Ian K. Steele 257

15 Bryan Sheehan: Servant, Soldier, Fisherman / Margaret Kellow 273

16 Olaudah Equiano: An African in Slavery and Freedom / Robert J. Allison 291.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0842026975

0842027009

OCLC:

40120015