colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Alphabetically arranged entries provide information on the lives and works of more than seventy-five seventeenth-century British and American writers.

Collects the letters, proposals, and poems--including extant works and variants--of eighteenth-century African-American writer Phillis Wheatley, who, a teenage female slave, became the first internationally well-known Black poet in the English language. Also includes writings by her contemporaries, and an introduction to her life and career.

An anthology of Puritan writings from seventeenth-century New England, including tracts, journal entries, sermons, and poems.

Describes the history of education and schools in colonial America.

Discusses early immigrants struggle for survival, conflicts with Native Americans, and daily life in the colonies.

Describes the experiences of the first Africans in America, who were brought to the colonies as indentured servants, not slaves, and examines the development of slavery.

A collection of historical documents, including letters, speeches, and records of treaty negotiations, which provides a Native American perspective on the events of the colonial era, focusing on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.