After squanto taught the colonists at Plymouth in 1620 “both the manner how to set [their corn], ... more After squanto taught the colonists at Plymouth in 1620 “both the manner how to set [their corn], and after how to dress and tend it,” Indians seem to have disappeared from the American pastoral scene, except as unwelcome intruders. Seventeen years later, writes William Bradford, “the Pequots fell openly on the English at Connecticut, in the lower parts of the river, and slew sundry of them as they were at work in the fields.” Mary Rowlandson opens the story of her captivity during King Philip's War similarly, describing how the Narragansetts came out of the wilderness to attack the farmsteads at Lancaster, setting fire to buildings “with flax and hemp, which they brought out of the barn,” and later celebrated by feasting on the animals they had captured: “miserable was the waste that was there made, of horses, cattle, sheep, swine, calves, lambs, roasting pigs, and fowl (which they had plundered in the town) some roasting, some lying and burning, and some boiling to feed our mer...
... Promotional texts written by the elder and younger Hakluyts, Sir George Peckham, Christopher ... more ... Promotional texts written by the elder and younger Hakluyts, Sir George Peckham, Christopher Carleill, and others during the late six-teenth century shared a particular economic narrative regarding New ... Peckham works out more closely the logistics of the projected wool trade. ...
... Sweet's work also silently suggests that many questions remain to be explored: the tensi... more ... Sweet's work also silently suggests that many questions remain to be explored: the tensions between artistic expression in poems and pho ... or Slaves Without Masters ed. C. Vann Wood-ward (1857; Cambridge, Mass., 1960); Hinton Helper, The Impending Crisis of the South ...
After squanto taught the colonists at Plymouth in 1620 “both the manner how to set [their corn], ... more After squanto taught the colonists at Plymouth in 1620 “both the manner how to set [their corn], and after how to dress and tend it,” Indians seem to have disappeared from the American pastoral scene, except as unwelcome intruders. Seventeen years later, writes William Bradford, “the Pequots fell openly on the English at Connecticut, in the lower parts of the river, and slew sundry of them as they were at work in the fields.” Mary Rowlandson opens the story of her captivity during King Philip's War similarly, describing how the Narragansetts came out of the wilderness to attack the farmsteads at Lancaster, setting fire to buildings “with flax and hemp, which they brought out of the barn,” and later celebrated by feasting on the animals they had captured: “miserable was the waste that was there made, of horses, cattle, sheep, swine, calves, lambs, roasting pigs, and fowl (which they had plundered in the town) some roasting, some lying and burning, and some boiling to feed our mer...
... Promotional texts written by the elder and younger Hakluyts, Sir George Peckham, Christopher ... more ... Promotional texts written by the elder and younger Hakluyts, Sir George Peckham, Christopher Carleill, and others during the late six-teenth century shared a particular economic narrative regarding New ... Peckham works out more closely the logistics of the projected wool trade. ...
... Sweet's work also silently suggests that many questions remain to be explored: the tensi... more ... Sweet's work also silently suggests that many questions remain to be explored: the tensions between artistic expression in poems and pho ... or Slaves Without Masters ed. C. Vann Wood-ward (1857; Cambridge, Mass., 1960); Hinton Helper, The Impending Crisis of the South ...
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