21L.707 | Fall 2005 | Undergraduate

Writing Early American Lives: Gender, Race, Nation, Faith

Related Resources

These links are used to support the course readings and assignments.

White Watercolors/De Bry engravings    
An excellent Web site allowing you to compare the engraved images in Harriot’s book with John White’s original watercolors.

Bible    
Searchable text, several translations (Christian site).

Pequot Museum    
Tribally owned museum (this is Apess’ tribe).

Foxwoods    
Tribally owned Pequot casino, with links to history.

Mohegan Tribal Web site    
See inter alia the brief bio of Occum under “Heritage”.

Dartmouth College    
Compare this account to the Mohegan tribal account in Occum’s biography.

Mohican Tribal History    
Based on oral traditions and an early 18th c. ms. by John Quinney.

Stockbridge History (longer version)    
A more expansive account of Anglo-Mohican relations in the town.

Slavery in New York    
An exhibit now up at the New York Historical Society.

Boston African Americana Collection    
A digital collection from the Boston Athenaeum.

Schomburg Archive    
Poems and other writing by African American women of the nineteenth century.

Remembering Slavery    
Documentary testimony collected in 1930’s-40’s.

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