Remarkable Providences: Readings on Early American HistoryJohn Demos "These documents have been chosen, in every case, for the way they reflect lived experience among average people in our colonial past. There is no real substitute for such primary evidence — no other way to capture the feel of events from day to day, year to year, generation to generation." — from the Preface |
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Contents
Preface to the Revised Edition | xiii |
A Rationale for Migration 3 | xlii |
Passengers to the New World | 12 |
A Checklist | 18 |
Blueprint for a New England Community | 30 |
The Trials of a Leader | 35 |
Two Letters Home | 46 |
The Early Days Remembered | 54 |
College Life and Social Place | 245 |
Order in Human Relationships | 252 |
A Sinner Cast Out | 262 |
Confrontation Politics Colonial Style | 283 |
The Militia in Training | 290 |
The Problem of Slavery | 299 |
Noble Savage? | 313 |
Efforts of a Missionary | 323 |
A Marblehead Clergyman | 70 |
A Virginia Minister | 103 |
A Connecticut Farmer | 123 |
The Physical Setting | 131 |
A Household Budget | 143 |
Petitions of Richard Preston and His Servants | 159 |
The Elderly | 180 |
Death | 187 |
Inheritance | 198 |
The Passage of Generations | 210 |
A Social Contract | 229 |
The Spatial Dimension | 239 |
The Process of Negotiation | 336 |
War and Captivity | 344 |
How to Fight Savages | 372 |
Ways and Means of Agriculture | 379 |
Problems of Travel and Transport | 388 |
Some New World Variants | 404 |
Images of Another World | 413 |
A Case of Diabolical Possession | 421 |
Defense against Evil | 437 |
A Range of Remarkables | 447 |
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