American Literature Before 1800
revised 8/2008
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca
John Winthrop
"A Model of Christian Charity"
William Bradford
From Of Plymouth Plantation:
Ch 1: Origin of the Puritans; The Scrooby Congregation
Ch 9: The Mayflower Voyage
Ch 10: The Cape Cod Arrival; Encounter with the Indians
Anno: 1620 The Mayflower Compact; Election of Governor John Carver; Samoset,
Squanto, and Chief Massasoyt; The Peace Treaty
Anno: 1621: Carver’s Death and the election of Governor Bradford; Squanto and the
Indians; The First Harvest; The Narraganset Challenge; Bradford versus
Christmas Day Observance
Anno: 1628: Allerton’s Mission; The Merrymount Maypole Affair
Anno 1634: The Murder of Hocking; Smallpox among the Indians
Anno: 1636: The Pequot War
Anno: 1634: Plymouth Crime Wave; Crimes, Sins, and Heresies in New England
Anne Bradstreet
“The Flesh and the Spirit”
"To My Dear and Loving Husband"
"Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment"
"In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet"
"For Deliverance from a Fever’
"Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House"
Mary Rowlandson
A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration
Edward Taylor
“Meditation 38”
“Meditation 42”
“The Soul’s Groan to Christ for Succor”
“Christ’s Reply”
“The Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly Attended”
“Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children”
“Huswifery”
“A Fig for Thee, Oh! Death”
Jonathan Edwards
"Personal Narrative"
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur
from Letters from an American Farmer: Letter III. "What Is an American?" Letter IX.
"Description of Charles-Town"
Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography
Thomas Jefferson
from Notes on the State of Virginia: Query XIX: Manufactures
The Declaration of Independence
James Madison
“Federalist No. 10”
Olaudah Equiano
The Interesting Narrative
Royall Tyler
The Contrast
Phillis Wheatley
"On Being Brought from Africa to America"
"To the University of Cambridge, in New England"
"To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works”
"To His Excellency General Washington”
Hannah Foster
The Coquette
Charles Brockden Brown
Wieland