Atlantic Lives: A Comparative Approach to Early America - Atlantic Lives: A Comparative Approach to Early America -

: Into the Atlantic Crucible Introduction Selection 1: An Early Portuguese Encounter with West Africans Selection 2: First News of Native Americans in Europe Selection 3: An Indian Perspective on the Europeans’ Arrival in North America Discussion Questions Suggested Readings : The Columbian Exchange Introduction Selection 1: An Elizabethan Scientist Admires Indian Agriculture Selection 2: The Exchange of Furs and Microbes in New France Selection 3: A Military Officer Contemplates Life in a Beaver Lodge Selection 4: Black Philadelphians Face a Yellow Fever Epidemic Discussion Questions Suggested Readings : Captivities Introduction Selection 1: A German Soldier Fears Being Cannibalized by His Native American Captors Selection 2: The Captivities of Captain John Smith and Pocahontas Selection 3: A Pennsylvania Woman’s Adoption into an Indian Family Selection 4: An African-American Sailor’s Serial Captivities Discussion Questions Suggested Readings : Religion and Conversion Introduction Selection 1: A Revolt among Mission Indians in New Mexico Selection 2: Native American Converts in Seventeenth-Century Canada Selection 3: A Christian Indian Challenges His Colonial Mentor Selection 4: An African American’s Conversion Experience during the Great Awakening Discussion Questions Suggested Readings : West Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade Introduction Selection 1: A Scottish Explorer Describes Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa Selection 2: A European Describes a Slave-Trading Post Selection 3: A Former Slave Remembers His Enslavement in Africa Selection 4: A Surgeon Describes Conditions on a Slave Ship Discussion Questions Suggested Readings : The Plantation Complex in the Caribbean Introduction Selection 1: Servants, Slaves, and Masters in Barbados Selection 2: A Description of African Maroon Communities Selection 3: A Former Slave Condemns the Inhumanity of Caribbean Slavery Discussion Questions Suggested Readings : The Spanish and Portuguese in the Americas Introduction Selection 1: An English Traveler Explains the Repartimiento System in Spanish America Selection 2: An Italian Priest Describes Social Relations in Mexico City Selection 3: A Description of Plantation Society in Portuguese Brazil Discussion Questions Suggested Readings : The Dutch, French, and English in North America Introduction Selection 1: A Dutch Traveler in New Netherland/New York, 1679–1680 Selection 2: A French Military Officer Describes the Indians of Canada, 1757 Selection 3: Benjamin Franklin Calculates the Population of British North America Discussion Questions Suggested Readings : The Wooden World: Maritime Labor and Piracy Introduction Selection 1: A Dutch Pirate in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean Selection 2: A Pirate Faces Execution in Boston Selection 3: An American Sailor Experiences Impressment in the British Navy Selection 4: A Woman’s Perception of Life on a Whaling Ship Discussion Questions Suggested Readings : The Atlantic Highway: European Migrations Introduction Selection 1: An Englishman Enters into an Indenture Selection 2: A German Migrant’s Passage to America Selection 3: A French Account of a Passage to Canada Selection 4: Two Scottish Opinions on the Emigration Experience Discussion Questions Suggested Readings : Interracial Marriage and Sexuality in the Atlantic World Introduction Selection 1: A French Nun Remarks on Native American Women Selection 2: A Scottish Woman’s Impressions of Gender and Sexual Relations in the British West Indies and North Carolina Selection 3: Interracial Intimacy in the Fur Trade Selection 4: An Interracial Marriage Causes Controversy in New England Discussion Questions Suggested Readings : Enlightenment and Revolution Introduction Selection 1: A French Expatriate Describes Colonial Society in British North America Selection 2: A Trans-Atlantic Revolutionary’s Attack on Monarchy and Aristocracy Selection 3: An Anti-Slavery Advocate Defends the Slave Rebels of Saint Domingue Selection 4: A Creole Revolutionary’s Vision for the Future of Spanish America Discussion Questions Suggested Readings : Out of the Atlantic Crucible Introduction Selection 1: A German Traveler Describes the Race-Based Social Order of Mexico Selection 2: A French Traveler Considers the Future of Race Relations in the United States of America Selection 3: A Free Black’s Incendiary Call for the Destruction of Slavery Selection 4: A Native American Challenges the Pilgrim Story Discussion Questions Suggested Readings Chronology of Important Events in Atlantic World History