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Think of these pages as electronic reserves. Refer students to them for online research.

Each page has a unique URL that you can link to from your own web page.

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Chapter 2 - Colonial Ways of Life

Images and Maps

Africans in the Americas
(Part One of this site, sponsored by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, is particularly relevant to this chapter. It includes images and primary sources.)

Salem Witch Museum
(This site is sponsored by the Salem Witch Museum.)

Benjamin Franklin: Glimpses of the Man
(This site explores the life of this eighteenth-century American philosophe.)

William Penn: Visionary Proprietor 
(This site explores Penn's efforts to build his model society in Pennsylvania.)

 

Primary Sources

Colonial North America
(This section of the Internet Modern History Sourcebook, created by Paul Halsall, offers numerous primary sources relating to the events covered in this chapter.)

Jonathan Edwards.com
(This site includes many transcripts of this famous minister's sermons.)

Fire and Ice: Puritan and Reformed Writings
(This site offers numerous texts from Puritan ministers from New England.)

 

Secondary Sources

The African Diaspora: Revisionist Interpretations of Ethnicity, Culture and Religion under Slavery
(This article by Paul E. Lovejoy appeared in Studies in the World History of Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation, II, 1 (1997))

 

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