The Birth of America- From Before Columbus to the Revolution
thought representative assemblies are “of dangerous consequence [and] prove destructive to, or very oft disturbe, the peace of t ...
that had plagued it for decades. But it was not in New York that the ulti- mate decisions were being made: Leisler’s enemies had ...
its interests, he did not visit his colony until 1682—and then he almost did not make it, because smallpox devastated the passen ...
chapter 9 The Growth of the Colonies F or us it takes a leap of imagination to see and feel what it was like to live in the Amer ...
where ceilings were customarily coated with white plaster and partitioned by supporting wooden beams, he whitewashed the floorbo ...
attic, one could see that the house indeed resembled an inverted ship: the supporting beams were pegged to a “keel” that served ...
furniture makers in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, although the Shakers and the Amish continued to fashion more austere, le ...
family, who within a few years would build the great Belle Meade plantation house, were still in their log cabin as late as the ...
Although English elegance was much sought after, even the rich had few clothes. In the new cities, the “middling” class had only ...
chants for 4.5 million pounds, or roughly as much as the yearly service on the British public debt. Thomas Jefferson commented, ...
rupt. Admiration of “every thing that is British” sometimes produced humorous results. One activity stood out: the aristocratic ...
from it: adding, That it was often used among the Guramantese”—[that is, the Coromantee, the Akan or Twi of the Gold Coast]. Sma ...
could. On the frontier, however, Charles Woodmason reported, “I have not yet met with one literate, or travel’d Person.” Schooli ...
Everyman’s Hands.” Even at that discount, the book still cost a laborer’s wage for several days’ work. The first newspaper in th ...
“can Britain show a more sovereign contempt for us than by emptying their jails into our settlements; unless they would likewise ...
black, and one in ten lived on the frontier. The population was not only doubling each generation but becoming more diverse. An ...
or the cause of a good dunking in summer. Flat-bottom ferries frequently were capsized by frightened animals or storms, but they ...
six weeks. By the time letters went to and fro, the sick had died or recov- ered, attacks had succeeded or been repulsed, couple ...
uity of the custom is shown by the origin of the expression, the Anglo- Normanhu-e-cri—every nearby person was obliged to respon ...
true throughout the colonial period. In 1755 Governor Sharpe of Maryland wrote, “The Planters Fortunes here consist in the numbe ...
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