The Human Tradition in Colonial America

Chapter 1 Introduction: Meeting Colonial Americans
Chapter 2 Alvar N?Òez Cabeza de Vaca: Conquistador and Sojourner
Chapter 3 Squanto: Last of the Patuxet
Chapter 4 Gabriel Sagard: A Franciscan among the Huron
Chapter 5 Anne Hutchinson, the Puritan Patriarchs, and the Power of the Spirit
Chapter 6 In Search of Pocahontas
Chapter 7 Daniel Clocker's Adventure: From Servant to Freeholder
Chapter 8 John Cotton Jr.: Wayward Puritan Minister?
Chapter 9 Isabel Montour: Cultural Broker on the Frontiers of New York and Pennsylvania
Chapter 10 Caspar Wistar: German-American Entrepreneur and Cultural Broker
Chapter 11 Lewis Morris Jr.: British American Officeholder
Chapter 12 Pierre Pouchot: A French Soldier Views America
Chapter 13 George Whitefield: Transatlantic Revivalist
Chapter 14 Samson Occom: Mohegan Leader and Cultural Broker
Chapter 15 Susannah Johnson: Captive
Chapter 16 Bryan Sheehan: Servant, Soldier, Fisherman
Chapter 17 Olaudah Equiano: An African in Slavery and Freedom
Chapter 18 Index

A very rich collection that explores the enormous diversity of the people of colonial America. For all their differences they had one huge problem in common: trying to live in a difficult world that was new to them all. Here is the true beginning of Ameri