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In the pamphlet, A Trve Declaration of the estate of the Colonie in Virginia, With a confutation of such scandalous reports as haue tended to the disgrace of so worthy an enterprise, the Virginia Company promoter, William Barret recounts a report…

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Pictures and Writing and the major people of in the discussion of religious salvation

In 1751, Benjamin Franklin wrote to James Parker discussing the advantageous of forming a union of their own. In it Franklin shows amazement of how “Six Nations of ignorant savages would be capable of forming a scheme for such a union, and be able to…

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This document is one of many examples of slave advertisements and runaway slave posts which use terms to indicate considered terms of whiteness and blackness, as the ad indicates the runaway enslaved people as “very black” and “of a black…

The letter written by Edward Randolph is a report to make clear misunderstandings or misinformation which explains possible causes for the King Philip’s war. King Philip’s war or Metacom’s War took place in the New England colonies between 1675 and…

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In this source, Governor Dinwiddie seeks to gain Native American allies against the French, part of a British effort to acquire native allies. This highlights the alliances that formed prior to the war.

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This source talks about Washington’s orders for dealing with the French in the Ohio Valley. It mostly talks on recruitment and things related to that. Part of the West Virginia Achieves.

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Letters of America is a first-hand account by William Eddis who lived in Maryland and saw the life of servants and slaves. He talks about the common misconceptions that people have of indentured servants and their reasons for leaving. He contrasts…

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This is a letter from French Catholic Jesuit minister Pierre Biard to General Claude Acquaviva
of the Society of Jesus, at Rome, May 26, 1614. It describes Father Biard's capture in New France by
the English and their violent treatment. It also…

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In this document Joseph Houlton and John Walcot blames multiple wives of townsmen for “sundry acts of witchcraft.” Most importantly the accusation against Martha Carrier, because she was later tried and put to death for the accusation of being a…
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