HIST 2154 - Minorities in US History (OER): Module 1: European Colonization & the British Colonial Era, 1607-1775

Topic 1: Native American Indian Voices in British Colonial America

• Chief Powhatan's Address to Captain John Smith, 1609
• The Pilgrims from the (Pequot) Indian Perspective, 1636
• “A Severe and Proud Dame She Was”: Mary Rowlandson Lives Among the Indians, 1675
• John Lawson Encounters North American Indians, 1709
• Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address, 
• Pontiac Calls for War, 1763
• Alibamo Mingo, Choctaw Leader, Reflects on the British and French, 1765
• Samson Occom Describes his Conversion and Ministry, 1768
• Iroquois Creation Myth, 1816
• Iroquois Origin Story: The Great Turtle
• Captured By Indians: Mary Jemison Becomes an Indian, 1824
• The Legend of Moshup, 1830
• “The Moment That The Snows Are Melted The Indian Women Begin Their Work”
• Algonquian Response to European Claims of Superiority

Topic 2: African American Voices in British Colonial America

• Virginia Slave Laws, 1662-1669
• Rose Davis is sentenced to a life of slavery, 1715
• Two Views of the Stono Slave Rebellion-South Carolina, 1739
• A Quaker Abolitionist Travels Through Maryland and Virginia: The Journal of John Woolman, 1757
• "The Confession of York," New York Conspiracy Trials, 1741
• Broadside Announcing a Sale of Slaves, 1774
• Olaudah Equiano Describes the Middle Passage Voyage, 1789
• “To Redeem My Family”: Venture Smith Frees Himself and his Family, 
• Broadside Announcing the Sale of Slaves
  • (Explanation of a Broadside)
• Runaway Slave Notices 
• Slave Voyages Database
• Evidence of Slave Resistance in the WPA Slave Narratives

Topic 3: Women’s Voices in British Colonial America

• Malleus Maleficarum (The Witch's Hammer"), 1487
• Song about Life in Virginia from a Young Girl sent to Virginia against her Will (1689-1703)
• Eliza Lucas Letters, 1740-1741
• “We Unfortunate English People Suffer Here”: An English Servant Writes Home by Elizabeth Sprigs
• Boston trader Sarah Knight on her travels in Connecticut, 1704 (Diary-Oct.7)
• “I Wove To-day”: Elizabeth Fuller Grows Up in Rural Massachusetts
• Witchcraft Trial Text/ Examination of Sarah Goode
• The Examination of Anne Hutchinson (Transcript), 1637
• Anne Bradstreet Poem: “A Letter to her Husband, Absent upon Publick Employment,” c. 1630s
• Jane Colman Turell Diary, ca. 1727-1735
• History Matters: Witchcraft Primary Source Papers

Crash Course US History [CC-BY-SA]

• When is Thanksgiving?
• The Natives and the English
• The Quakers, the Dutch, and the Ladies
• The Seven Years War and the Great Awakening

Crash Course Black American History [CC-BY-SA]

• The Transatlantic Slave Trade
• Slavery in the American Colonies
• Elizabeth Key
• Slave Codes
• The Germantown Petition Against Slavery
• The Stono Rebellion

Khan Academy, [CC-BY-SA]

• Native American Societies before Contact
• Bacon's Rebellion

Black History in Two Minutes [Licensing/Use Statement]

• The First Underground Railroad
• The Transatlantic Slave Trade

Other

• Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative: An Introduction [CC-BY]
• What Really Happened during the Salem Witch Trials? [Ted-Ed, CC-BY-NC-ND]
• What is Coverture? [New York Historical Society Educational Videos, CC-BY-SA]
• Thomas(ine) Hall, Gender Non-Conforming in Colonial Virginia [New York Historical Society Educational Videos, CC-BY-SA]
• Women before the American Revolution [James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation, Use Statement]
• Fashionable Rebellion [New York Historical Society Educational Videos, CC-BY-SA]
• How Two New Amsterdam Women Prevented a Colonial War [New York Historical Society Educational Videos, CC-BY-SA]
• The Salem Witch Trials [TeachingHistory.org, CC-BY-NC-SA]

The American Yawp Textbook [CC-BY-SA]

• The American Yawp, Chapter 2 
• The American Yawp, Chapter 3
• The American Yawp, Chapter 4 

African American History Textbook [CC-BY-SA]

• The African Slave Trade & the Atlantic World, pp. 20-33
• The Development of Indentured Servitude & Racial Slavery in the American Colonies, pp. 34-53

Teaching American Indian History with Primary Sources [NPS, Public Domain]

• Reading 2.1: Who Owns America? The Doctrine of Discovery, pp. 45-47
• Reading 2.2: Creed or Greed, pp. 48-50
• Reading 2.3: The Thinning o the American Indian Population, pp. 50-53

World History Encyclopedia [CC-BY-NC-SA]

• Virginia Slave Laws & the Development of Colonial American Slavery 
• Squanto
• The Indian Massacre of 1622 
• Pocahontas
• Daily Life in Colonial America
• Everyday Women's Fashion from Colonial Massachusetts [Public Domain]
• Formal Attire in Colonial America [Public Domain]
• Jamestown Brides
• Anne Hutchinson
• Religion & Superstition in Colonial America
• A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials

Women & the American Story [New York Historical Society, Use Statement]

• Settler Colonialism
  • Margrieta Van Varick
  • Sarah
  • McLennan's Enslaved Woman
  • The Public Universal Friend
  • Marguerite Faffart
  • Marie-Therese Bourgeois Chouteau
  • Susanna Wright
  • Tituba
  • Nansi Wiggins
  • Toypurina
  • Mother Esther Mary-Joseph Wheelwright de l'Enfant

The Conversation [CC-BY-ND]

• A digital archive of slave voyages details the largest forced migration in history
• Archaeologists have a lot of dates wrong for North American indigenous history – but we’re using new techniques to get it right
• From the Great Plains, Native American masterpieces emerged
• Kennewick Man will be reburied, but quandaries around human remains won’t
• Cicely was young, Black, and enslaved - her death during an epidemic in 1714 has lessons that resonate in today’s pandemic
• Cahokian culture spread across eastern North America 1,000 years ago in an early example of diaspora

Other

• The Role of Women in the Colonies [Lumen Learning, CC-BY-SA]

• Online
• Face to Face

• Concept Knowledge Self Assessment (Pre/Post)
• Discussion Options
• Study Guide

Stanford History Education Group (SHEG)
requires free account to download teaching materials

• SHEG: Pocahontas
• SHEG: The First Thanksgiving
• SHEG: King Philip's War
• SHEG: Salem Witch Trials

History Matters (HM)

• History Matters: Witchcraft Primary Source Papers

National Archives: Docs Teach [Public Domain] 

• Analyzing a Petition about Slavery
• Evaluating a Needlework Sampler as Historical Evidence

Native American Voices

• What accounts for the diversity of Native American experiences in North America prior to the arrival of the Europeans? What role did geography play? 

• Identify at least 3 different points of cooperation and conflict between Native Americans and Europeans during the colonial period, particularly as they emerged in the primary sources. Some points to consider: 

  • Trade between colonists and Native Americans 

  • Native American resistance and Revolts 

  • Captivity Narratives 

• How did Europeans depict Native Americans in ...How did that skew the historical record? In what ways does “reinserting Native American voices” into the historical narrative help correct those errors? What are the limits of that effort? 

African American Voices

• Explain the origins of race-based, chattel slavery in the United States. What role did Bacon’s Rebellion play? 

• What were the causes of slave revolts in the 17th and 18th centuries? What were the consequences? (Note: pay particular attention to the Stono Rebellion and the New York Conspiracy Trials) 

Women's Voices

• In what ways did women's experiences in colonial America differ based on socio-economic class? 

• What role did religion play in the lives of colonial women?