Colonial Settlement 1607-1763 and Expansion and Reform 1801-1861
Fall 2003
Overview of Colonial Settlement and Expansion
"The Significance of the Frontier in American History" by Frederick Jackson Turner
Reading:
Unredeemed Captive by John Demos
Links:
Raid on Deerfield: the Many Stories of 1704
In the pre-dawn hours of February 29, 1704, a force of about 300 French and Native allies launched a daring raid on the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts.
Reading:
The Captive by Joyce Hansen
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North American Slave Narratives
"North American Slave Narratives" collects books and articles that document the individual and collective story of African Americans struggling for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries.
Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African
According to his famous autobiography, written in 1789, Olaudah Equiano (c.1745-1797) was born in what is now Nigeria. Kidnapped and sold into slavery in childhood, he was taken as a slave to the New World. As a slave to a captain in the Royal Navy, and later to a Quaker merchant, he eventually earned the price of his own freedom by careful trading and saving.
African Americans in Vermont, 1790-1870
Selections from the Vermont Census.
Reading:
Riding Freedom by Pam Munoz
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Highway 17 Stage Coach Lines & Charley Parkhurst
One of the most famous stagecoach drivers was Charley 'Parkie' Parkhurst, known as one of the toughest and most reliable drivers on the line. However Parkhurst is best known for having living her life as a man, until her death when her true sex was revealed for the first time to startled friends.
Charlie D. Parkhurst - The Shadows of The Past Chronicle
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