Nearing the end of the semester, I reflect back on this Literature class and our Anthology project with mixed feelings. I enjoyed the class as a whole, and I greatly appreciate the vast amount of information that I obtained in such a short time. Although, this information certainly came at a cost – that being […]
Author Archive | Sarah Williams
The Challenging Environment of Colonial South Carolina
While reading through Taylor’s American Colonies and Weir’s Colonial South Carolina, I was particularly interested in how both men describe the environment of South Carolina at that time. The environment of South Carolina, as any person would know from being in the state, is one of extremes and frequent changes. There are many annoyances such […]
Chapter 11: The Cherokee War and the Indirect Challenge to the Carolina Gentry
When the Carolina colony was first being erected, the crown in England enforced salutary neglect, meaning that giving the colonists free reign with little authority would produce a more productive colony. However, after King George’s War of 1748, the British felt it necessary to reverse their original order. The British feared that the Carolina colonists […]
Anne Hutchinson’s Attack on Puritanism
In Chapter 21 of David Hall’s Puritans in the New World: A Critical Anthology, the examination of Anne Hutchinson before the court and followed by her own written response gives an interesting (although somewhat confusing) view of her beliefs and the church’s disapproval. Anne Hutchinson was brought to court for defying the magistrates and ministers […]
Bradford’s Description of the Indians: A Changing Perspective?
Though the section we read from Bradford does not focus very much on his encounter with the native populations, we do see a marked difference in how he describes them in more hypothetical terms before their departure and how he describes his interaction with them. Walk us through this shift in opinion. How would you […]
The Early Carolinas Through the Eyes of Edward Randolph
After reading The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca and many slave narratives in my African American Literature class, I would almost expect all narratives to tell the story of a person’s struggles to survive, or of their discoveries in a new land or situation. However, after reading narratives from the collection, Narratives of Early Carolina: […]
An Overview of Change in the Mind of Cabeza de Vaca in Five Excerpts
Cabeza de Vaca’s narrative beautifully depicts many drastic changes that occurred between the times that the European men first arrived in the New World and when they left. One of the most significant changes is how the men viewed the Native Indians that lived in different areas of modern day Central America, North America, and […]
Losing the Native American Culture in a European Mindset
While reading the myths and legends of the Native American Indians in Erdoes and Ortiz’s collection, many of us began asking the question of the truthfulness of translation. Many of the stories that are recorded in this book are eerily similar to many European Biblical stories of Christianity, despite the fact that these two religions […]
“Blood Clot” and “Stone Boy”: Very Similar Tales
In Erdoes and Ortiz’s American Indian Myths and Legends, many of the tales seem to revolve around a few central themes. Each tale tells a story of its own, but two stories, “Blood Clot” and “Stone Boy,” oddly recount similar tales. In both “Blood Clot” and “Stone Boy,” two boys are born/created from a natural […]
