John Winthrop wrote his essay “Christian Charity, A Model Hereof” before leaving for New England and used it as a guide for the intentions of the voyage. Winthrop uses Christian Charity as a way to explain the necessity of community. Winthrop begins his essay by rationalizing the discrepancy between the rich and poor. He suggests […]
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Fusing Religious Ideology With Labor
Alan Taylor draws a connection between the Puritan’s zeal for religion and the Puritan’s adept ability to produce labor and maintain a stable economic colony, in which the poorest of colonist had a “house and land of his own” (172). Taylor notes that the Puritan colonies had neither the extremely poor nor the […]
The English in America
Though unfortunately John Hawkins may be most remembered for his role in the slave trade, he also completed one of the first formal English expeditions to the Americas. John Hawkins departed from English in 1564 accompanied by his cousin Francis Drake, and a crew of 700. Hawkins’s journey to America provided the English with their […]
