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John Smith’s famous map of Virginia (1622) illustrates many geopolitical features of early colonization. In the upper left, Powhatan, who governed a powerful local confederation of Algonquian communities, sits above other local leaders, denoting his authority. Another native figure, Susquehannock, who appears in the upper right, visually reinforces the message that the English did not control the land beyond a few outposts along the Chesapeake.
John Winthrop Dreams of. City on a Hill, 1630
John Winthrop delivered [this] sermon before he and his fellow settlers reached New England. The sermon is famous largely for its use of the phrase “a city on a hill,” used to describe the expectation that the Massachusetts Bay colony
would shine like an example to the world . But Winthrop’s sermon also reveals how he expected Massachusetts to differ from the rest of the world.
In this document, Captain Thomas Phillips of the English slave ship, Hannibal, describes how he and his English crew interacted and negotiated with an African king, and his emissaries, in order to acquire slaves. Phillips also describes how English traders branded and shackled slaves in the early stages of the Middle Passage, and how Africans resisted their enslavement by mutiny and suicide. Phillips also provides a rare reflection on how Europeans and Africans perceived color difference and created emerging concepts of race and racism.
U.S. History
Authors: P. Scott Corbett, Volker Janssen, John M. Lund, Todd Pfannestiel, Sylvie Waskiewicz, Paul Vickery
Access for free at https://openstax.org/books/us-history/pages/1-introduction
Sections located at: 3 Introduction https://openstax.org/books/us-history/pages/3-introduction; 3.3 https://openstax.org/books/us-history/pages/3-3-english-settlements-in-america; 3.4 https://openstax.org/books/us-history/pages/3-4-the-impact-of-colonization
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A Journal of a Voyage Made in the Hannibal of London
Author: Thomas Phillips
Located at: https://books.google.com/books?id=qFJBAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Thomas+Phillips+Hannibal&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiZqfHJjPnZAhVHGpAKHdRXANwQ6AEIKzAB#v=onepage&q=Thomas%20Phillips%20Hannibal&f=false.
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John Winthrop Dreams of a City on a Hill, 1630
Author: John Winthrop, “ A Model of Christian Charity,” in A Library of American Literature: Early Colonial Literature, 1607-1675, Edmund Clarence Stedman and Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, eds. (New York: 1892), 304-307
Located at: https://www.americanyawp.com/reader/colliding-cultures/john-winthrop-dreams-of-a-city-on-a-hill-1630/
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
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