Colonial / Pre-Revolutionary American Literature

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Generall Historie of Virgnia New England and the Summer Isles

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(John) Smith

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History of Plimmoth Plantation

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(William) Bradford

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History of New England

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(John) Winthrop

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An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences

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I(ncrease) Mather

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Magnalia Christi Americana: The Ecclesiastical History of NE from its First Planting

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C(otton) Mather

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New English Canaan

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(Thomas) Morton

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Brief History of the Pequod War

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(John) Mason

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wrote about captivity by Wampanoags under King Philip [Metacomet, son of Massasoit]

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(Mary) Rowlandson

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Bay Psalm Book (whole book of Psalms translated into english meter, first book printed in British north america)

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(Richard) Mather, (Thomas) Weld, (John) Eliot

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Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America (including A Dialogue between Old England and New, Four Elements, Four Constitutions, Four Ages of Man, Four Seasons, Four Monarchies, and Contemplations)

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(Anne) Bradstreet

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Poetical Works, God's Determinations Touching His Elect

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(Edward) Taylor

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Day of Doom (sinners and unbaptized infants condemned to Hell on Day
of Judgement)

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(Michael) Wigglesworth

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A Character of the Province of Maryland

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(George) Alsop

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A Brief Description of New York

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(Daniel) Denton

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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising
Work of God, Freedom of the Will

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(Johnathon) Edwards

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History of the Dividing Line, Secret Diary, Another Secret Diary

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(William) Byrd

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(first by black American) Bar's Fight August 28 1746

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(Lucy) Terry

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(black slave) An Evening Thought Salvation by Christ with Penitential Cries

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(Jupiter) Hammon

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(first famous black) Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral

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(Phyllis) Wheatley

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Publick Occurrences

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first newspaper, Boston 1690

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Boston News-Letter (first regular newspaper, 1704)

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(John) Campbell

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American Magazine (one of first two magazines, 1741)

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(Andrew) Bradford

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General Magazine and Historical Chronicle (one of first two magazines,

1741), Autobiography, Poor Richard's Almanack (Richard Saunders)

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(Benjamin) Franklin

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Letters from an American Farmer

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(J. Hector St. John de) Crevecoeur