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It’s been a rather long and challenging semester, both in terms of research within this class and my course load in general. I knew at the beginning of this course that I’d be spending an ungodly amount of hours in the library, but could never have estimated that combined with the material I was working […]

My primary selections will be from the Monigault family papers. While I cannot use them all, as many are in French or illegible (and it is also too expansive of a collection), I will be revisiting the collection and doing my best to transcribe as many excerpts as I can to provide insight into life […]

One of the main points this chapter tries to make is the difference between different regions of the state. The backcountry was an area of lawlessness – men of property were the law against rustlers and thieves. The lowcountry, however, was the richest society in colonial America at the time (214). This was, of course, […]

In my assigned chapter, Roger Williams: Separatist, Baptist, “Seeker,” we’re presented with an example very similar to the case of Anne Hutchinson. Williams spoke out for how he felt the church should be run and was persecuted for it, with threats of exile. He left and started his own group in another area to avoid […]

 Thomas Weld makes frequent religious references throughout his piece. In “To His Former Parishioners at Terling, he spends a large amount of time making religious references. Much of his account is attributed to scripture as indicated by bracketed references; on top of that, however, Weld makes flat out comparisons between Biblical occurrences and his current […]

Frances Yeardley is, at the time this piece was written a humble minister in the Virginia area. Written in 1654, the narrative is an account of ventures made into the Carolina region by some of his acquaintances and neighbors. He is from a family who is historically prominent in Virginian affairs; this narrative, however, outlines […]

The following selections from The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca seek to show the change in ideology and perception of Native Americans in de Vaca throughout he and his party’s travels throughout the Americas. De Vaca arrives in America with more or less the ulterior motive of conquering in the name of Spain; towards the end […]

I’ve noticed some very interesting parallels between many of our Native American tales and Biblical stories and lessons that I’m familiar with. For example, “The Life and Death of Sweet Medicine” has a great deal of similarities with the story of the birth and life of Christ. Sweet Medicine is born to her without the […]

The Sacred Weed is a tale about the significance behind the ritualism that Native Americans associated with smoking tobacco. The preface to this tale helps the reader to understand the truth behind this piece – for Native Americans, smoking was a spiritual act, a way of transcendence. By providing a comparison to the way in […]