The Birth of America- From Before Columbus to the Revolution
the venture was doomed from the start. Looting Spanish treasure ships was what the colonists had signed on to do; they had not c ...
His immediate superior, the Huguenot Sieur de Monts, received a charter from King Henri IV granting him all the lands north of 4 ...
colonists. In half a century of efforts to build a colony, only about 6,000 Frenchmen managed to establish themselves. They coul ...
chapter 5 Society and Wars in the Old Countries A part from the Spaniards who were drawn to the New World by the lure of riches, ...
French statesman and philosopher Montaigne remarked, was unlikely to come into contact with the authority of the king more than ...
fully, “All’s well.” Real protection, or at least retribution, was also private: provided by furious citizens or bored bullies i ...
amounting at times virtually to nationhood. It was this combination of cus- tom and belief that expressed itself as “church.” Si ...
German principalities, and England; like the English dissenters, many eventually found their way to the American colonies. These ...
tlement was in West Jersey, where in 1675 they founded Salem (a name adapted from the Hebrew shalom). Then in 1682 some 2,000 sa ...
The great famine of 1315–1321 was followed by a long series of “hungers” including one in 1594–1597 just on the eve of the Engli ...
least voluntary migration, required a minimum amount of cunning, craft, and capital, which the poor did not have. But the appall ...
civil war in England. He set out four recommendations, one of which was “the diversion, occupation, and control of the hopeless ...
itable business. In 1665, a merchant in Edinburgh—one of many who made such a request—petitioned to be allowed to abduct “strong ...
burning fields of grain, killing livestock, spoiling caches of food, and enslav- ing or murdering men, women, and children. Pris ...
actions by its diplomatic and intelligence-gathering networks (which included disaffected English Catholics). On the basis of th ...
the place is so perfect (as they say) for piractical excursions that they will ruin the trade of Your Majesty’s vessels, for tha ...
against the Irish in which, as the English general put it, “We spare none of what quality or sex soever.” But still the Irish fo ...
gious tolerance unique in that intolerant century. (This tolerance made Holland a logical refuge for the English Puritan group t ...
chapter 6 The African Roots of American Blacks O n the West African coast, the causes of migration to the New World were as mult ...
“darkest Africa.” So, in the nineteenth century, they were fascinated by the brave forays of men like David Livingston. In fact, ...
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