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Part
One: Encounter and Colonization
Wed.,
Sept 2
Introduction
Fri.,
Sept. 4 The European Invasion of America
Mon.,
Sept. 7 No class (Labor Day)
Wed.,
Sept. 9 Discussion: First Impressions and Early Encounters
- Required
Reading:
- "The
Columbus Letter"-- English translation (on WWW)
- Bartolome
de Las Casas, The Devastation of the Indies, excerpt
(on reserve)
- David
E. Stannard, "Genocide
in the Americas" (on WWW)
- James
Axtell, "Moral Reflections on the Columbian Legacy" (on reserve)
- Boyer,
Enduring Vision, ch. 1-2
- Questions:
In the first century or so of sustained contact, how did Europeans
understand and treat Native Americans, and how did Native Americans
understand and treat them? How should we assess the results of these
early encounters? Were Europeans morally responsible for the destruction
of Native American societies?
Christopher Columbus, De insulis nuper in mari Indico
repertis. Bound with Carlo Verardi, In laudem...Ferdinandi
Hispaniarum regis... (Basel: Johann Bergmann de Olpe, 1494)
Source:
Jay I. Kislak Foundation
Bartholom� de Las Casas, Narratio regionum indicarum
per Hispanos...( Frankfurt: Theodor de Bry, 1598).
Source:
Special
Collections, University of Pennsylvania Library
Thomas
Hariot, Admiranda narratio fida tamen, de commodis et incolarum
ritibus Virginiae.
(Frankfurt: Theodor de Bry, 1590) Source:
Jay I. Kislak Foundation
Fri.,
Sept. 11 Bust,
Boom, Bondage, and Rebellion in Virginia
Relevant
website: APVA Jamestown Rediscovery
Evening:
Black Robe (video)-- showing at 7:30 pm at the professor's
house, 271 West College Street (a big pink house between Cedar and
Prospect Streets)
Mon.,
Sept. 14 The Puritans' Quest for Utopia
in New England
Wed.,
Sept. 16 Discussion: The Contest for Souls and Identity
in Early America
- Required
Reading:
- Demos,
Unredeemed Captive, xi-xiv, 3-213
- Boyer,
Enduring Vision, ch. 3
- Questions:
How different were the value systems of New England Puritans and
Kahnawake Indians in the early eighteenth century? According to
Demos, why did Eunice Williams come to identify herself as a Kahnawake?
Do you think Demos's account is persuasive or overly speculative?
The
Landing of the Pilgrims, 1620, relief by
Enrico Causici on doors of U.S.Capitol Rotunda (1825)
Source:
Scott
Atkins, The American Sense of Puritan
Part One: Encounter and Colonization
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Wed., Sept 2 Introduction Fri.,
Sept. 4 The European Invasion of America Mon., Sept. 7 No class (Labor Day) Wed., Sept. 9 Discussion: First Impressions and Early Encounters
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Fri., Sept. 11 Bust, Boom, Bondage, and Rebellion in Virginia
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Mon.,
Sept. 14 The Puritans' Quest for Utopia
in New England Wed., Sept. 16 Discussion: The Contest for Souls and Identity in Early America
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Enrico Causici on doors of U.S.Capitol Rotunda (1825) |
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labor on an indigo plantation, detail from Henry Mouzon, Jr. & John Lodge,
A map of the Parish of St. Stephen, in Craven County...
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Fri., Sept. 18 Africanization and Anglicization
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