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History 512:300: Colonial North America

Professor Silver • Frelinghuysen Hall a5 Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:10–2:30 p.m. Fall 2014

In this course we will survey the strange new worlds that North America’s violent jumble of native, European, and African cultures produced between roughly 1500 and 1750, during the first two and a half centuries of European monarchies’ attempts to colonize or control the sparsely peopled, resource-poor, and obdurate territories north of Mexico. Countless imperial projects came to grief in early modern North America, and much of its self- destabilizing social terrain can best be described in anthropological terms as a shatter zone. But by the close of our period, some European colonies and native societies—extending dominion inland from the seaboard and outward from the interior, respectively—had begun to paste together enduring ascendancies. The work of this course offers an introduction to colonial North American history in general, and to courses on the era of the American Revolution in particular. Starting with the worldwide contest of European empires and the collapse of North America’s grandest civilizations, we will range in time and space across the unexpected landscapes that colonization made, watching as everyday life was repeatedly interrupted by epidemics, revivals, and transforming wars. Along the way we will examine this period’s successive waves of trans-Atlantic migration—drawing people to North America from places as geographically and culturally remote as Switzerland and the Kongo—and the changes they worked on indigenous societies; describe the varieties of New World slavery and unfreedom; survey the ways in which trade and consumer culture remade America and the Atlantic basin; assess the cultural significance of magic, witchcraft, anti-Catholicism, and evangelicalism; consider problems of imperial rule, from piracy suppression to tax collection, and of local governance, from politics to the post; and examine the sweeping ecological shifts that followed Europeans and their animals, whether horses or honeybees, to North America. At the end of the course we will ask what themes might unify the years before 1750, and whether anything unified the people who lived in North America. Readings are drawn from recent works of early American history and selected primary sources (for an introduction to reading early printing and handwriting, see the handout posted under “Resources” on this course’s Sakai website). requirements

There will be an optional, limited-enrollment field trip for members of the course on Sunday, December 7. The course requirements are as follows. 2 history 512:300

1. Faithful attendance at each course meeting (see “Attendance, Electronics, and Plagiarism,” below, for details) and active participation in discussions during the bi- weekly recitations—which requires careful reading, week by week, of the assigned books and articles (30% of the final grade: 10% from attendance and 20% from your contributions in recitation). 2. An in-class midterm examination, meant to provide an early gauge of your progress, consisting of an essay question and a section of short identifications drawn from the lectures and readings (20% of the final grade). 3. An original essay of 4–6 pages, written using a limited selection of online primary sources (20% of the final grade; see “Research Essays,” below, for details). 4. A final examination, consisting of two essay questions and a section of short identifications drawn from the lectures and readings (30%). research essays and office hours

The essay assignment is to write a 4–6 page essay based on original research. You will conduct the research in one of several electronically-encoded primary sources available over the Internet. The sources available to you include most of the books, pamphlets, broadsides, and magazines printed in colonial North America, the British colonies’ best newspaper, and the fantastically revealing court records of seventeenth-century Essex County, Massachusetts. You will select one source and search it by keyword for any term of your choice—on the order of “swimming,” or “slaves”—to find out what early North Americans wrote and thought about that topic, or how it related to their everyday lives. The use of secondary sources is strenuously discouraged, since this assignment is all about seeing what you are able to discover by looking at and trying to make sense of primary evidence on your own. (For further details, please see the handout describing this assignment, posted under “Resources” on Sakai.) Your research keyword must be approved in consultation with me. My office hours are held Tuesday mornings from 10:00 to 11:30, and it is a good idea to form the habit of visiting them as often as you can. You should make an appointment at the online scheduling site: http://www.supersaas.com/schedule/psilver (available days are shown on the overview calendar in white highlighting). My office is Van Dyck 2C, my office telephone is (848) 932–8512, and my email address is [email protected]. Your completed research essay is due by the start of lecture on Tuesday, December 2, as a p.d.f. posted to “Assignments” on Sakai. Essays submitted one or two classes late will be marked down one or two letter grades, respectively, and essays submitted more than two classes late will fail. You have the sole responsibility for making sure your essay is uploaded properly, which means it is part of the assignment both to check your file before uploading it and to ensure that the upload has completed. If your submission is incomplete, blank, or unreadable, it will be graded as an incomplete or missing essay. If you must later resubmit it, it will be subject to the standard penalties for a late essay—but since I will not have seen colonial north america 3 the flaws in a submission until I attempt to grade it, those penalties will have grown more damaging than with a simple late submission. attendance, electronics, and plagiarism

Attendance is required at all course meetings. One accidental absence is allowed, and absences for serious illness (which you need to document and report to the university administration using the web form at https://sims.rutgers.edu/ssra) will be accounted for. Arriving late to class twice will count as an absence. One to four absences will lower your grade by one-half to two letter grades. More than four can result in failing the course. Laptops are permitted in class for note-taking only—not, under any circumstances, surfing the web, chatting, or emailing. Any use of smartphones is flatly prohibited. Please switch them off and stow them away during class. Any form of plagiarism on any course assignment or examination will result in a failing grade. Since you are responsible from the first day of this course for fully understanding what constitutes plagiarism, if you are ever in any doubt you should ask. For examples of verbatim and ‘mosaic’ plagiarism, inadequate paraphrases, uncited paraphrases or quotations, and copying, see http://tinyurl.com/harvardplagiarismguide. books

The following required course books can be purchased at the Rutgers University Bookstore or ordered from Amazon. (The correct editions can be found by clicking on the links under “Resources” on Sakai, or by searching for the i.s.b.n. numbers after their titles.) Assigned articles and chapters from books not on this list will be posted to Sakai in p.d.f. format.

Alan Taylor, American Colonies: The Settling of North America (New York: Viking Penguin, 2001; reprinted New York: Penguin Books, 2002). i.s.b.n. 978-0142002100

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca, ed. and trans. Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003). i.s.b.n. 978-0803264168

The Jesuit Relations: Natives and Missionaries in Seventeenth-Century North America, ed. Allan Greer (Boston: Bedford Books, 2000). i.s.b.n. 978-0312167073

Jill Lepore, New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005; reprinted New York: Vintage Books, 2006). i.s.b.n. 978-1400032266

Richard L. Bushman, The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992; reprinted New York: Vintage Books, 1993). i.s.b.n. 978-0679744146 4 history 512:300 september 2–4: Introduction: An unknown continent

1. North America, graveyard of empires (10,000 b.c.–a.d. 1750) 2. Heartlands of empire: Mexico, Europe—and the American Bottom? (1000–1500)

Assigned reading:

Jared Diamond, “The Ancient Ones: The Anasazi and Their Neighbors,” in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (New York: Viking Penguin, 2005), chap. 4, pp. 136–156, with further reading at pp. 535–537

Charles C. Mann, “Made in America” (on Cahokia and Tikal) in 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005; reprinted New York: Vintage Books, 2006), chap. 8, pp. 273–314, with endnotes at pp. 449–454

Suggested further reading:

Alan Taylor, American Colonies (New York: Penguin Books, 2001; reprinted 2002), chaps. 1 (“Natives, 13,000 b.c.–a.d. 1492”) and 2 (“Colonizers, 1400–1800”)

Shepard Krech iii, “Eden,” in The Ecological Indian: Myth and History (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1999; reprinted 2000), chap. 4, pp. 73–99, with endnotes at pp. 253–267

Inga Clendinnen, “The Cost of Courage in Aztec Society,” Past and Present, no. 107 (1985): 44–89 september 9–11: Decisive and elusive conquests

3. Patterns of conquest: The Norse, Columbus, and Cortés (1000–1521) 4. Shadow conquests: Soto and Mississippians, Coronado and Puebloans (1520–1550)

Assigned reading:

Jared Diamond, “Why Did the Vikings Vanish?” The New York Review of Books, vol. 49, no. 6, April 11, 2002

William D. Phillips, Jr., and Carla Rahn Phillips, “Columbus and the New World,” in The Worlds of Christopher Columbus (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992), chap. 8, pp. 155–181

James Axtell, “The Spanish Incursion,” in Natives and Newcomers: The Cultural Origins of North America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), chap. 9, pp. 217–232, with endnotes at pp. 382–387 colonial north america 5

document: Colin G. Calloway, “A Narrative of the De Soto Invasion,” in First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History (Boston: Bedford Books, 2004), pp. 96–105

Suggested further reading:

Taylor, American Colonies, chaps. 3 (“New Spain, 1500–1600”) and 4 (“The Spanish Frontier, 1530– 1700”), except for pp. 83–90 (“The New Mexico Missions” and “The Pueblo Revolt”) september 16–18: European power and weakness

5. The anti-Spanish axis: Stumbling into the Chesapeake (1560–1622) 6. recitation: Cabeza de Vaca’s improbable journey (1528–1536)

Assigned reading:

Excerpt from Daniel K. Richter, “Living with Europeans,” in Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001), chap. 3, pp. 69–75 (on Pocahontas)

Richter, “Tsenacommacah and the Atlantic World,” in The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550– 1624, ed. Peter C. Mancall (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2007), pp. 29–65 (note that Richter uses an alternative name for Powhatan, “Wahunsonacock”)

document: Excerpt from [Edward Waterhouse], A Declaration of the State of the Colony and Affaires in Virginia, with a Relation of the Barbarous Massacre in the Time of Peace and League, Treacherously Executed by the Native Infidels upon the English, the 22 of March ... (London, 1622), pp. 11–34

document: Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca, ed. and trans. Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003), Relación, pp. 43–176

Suggested further reading:

Taylor, American Colonies, excerpts from chap. 6 (“Virginia, 1570–1650”): “Promoters” (pp. 118– 123) and “Encounter,” “Jamestown,” “Violence,” and “Tobacco” (pp. 127–137)

Martin H. Quitt, “Trade and Acculturation at Jamestown, 1607–1609: The Limits of Understanding,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd. ser., 52 (1995): 227–258

Virginia Center for Digital History, Virtual Jamestown (http://www.virtualjamestown.org). A website with detailed timelines and useful summary articles about Jamestown, seventeenth-century and 6 history 512:300

modern maps and illustrations, a variety of primary sources, and three-dimensional archaeological artifacts and virtual-reality panoramas

Rolena Adorno, “The Negotiation of Fear in Cabeza de Vaca’s Naufragios,” Representations, no. 33 (1991): 163–193, with endnotes at pp. 193–199 (31 pages) september 23–25: The Haudenosaunee shatter zone: Its center and edges

7. Mourning war and middle ground: Algonquians, Iroquoians, and the French (1540–1670) 8. European–native war: New Netherland and the lesson of New Sweden (1610–1664)

Assigned reading:

Richard White, “The Middle Ground” and “The Fur Trade” in The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991; reprinted 2011), chaps. 2–3, pp. 50–141

Suggested further reading:

Taylor, American Colonies, excerpt from chap. 5 (“Canada and the Iroquois, 1500–1660”): “Jesuits” (pp. 107–111); and excerpts from chap. 16 (“French America, 1650–1750”): “Emigrants” (pp. 364–370) and “The Upper Country” (pp. 376–382) september 30– october 2: Two kinds of Christianity in the Northeast (film)

9. Divine order and disorder: New England begins (1620–1640) 10. recitation: The Jesuits confront Canada (1630–1680)

Assigned reading:

document: Excerpts from Anne Hutchinson’s examination before the General Court of Massachusetts, November 1637, in The Puritans in America: A Narrative Anthology, ed. Alan Heimert and Andrew Delbanco (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985), pp. 156– 163

David D. Hall, “The Mental World of Samuel Sewall,” Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 3rd ser., 92 (1980): 21–44

document: The Jesuit Relations: Natives and Missionaries in Seventeenth-Century North America, ed. Allan Greer (Boston: Bedford Books, 2000), pp. 1–36, 50–58, 61–69, 70–72, 75– 89, and 155–185 colonial north america 7

film: Black Robe (1991, 1 hour and 41 minutes), directed by Bruce Beresford from the novel by Brian Moore (itself inspired by the accounts of life among seventeenth-century northeastern Indians in the Jesuit Relations) must be viewed before this Thursday’s recitation. You can rent ($2.99) or buy ($9.99) Black Robe from iTunes or Amazon Instant Video. Links can be found on Sakai, under “Resources.”

Suggested further reading:

Taylor, American Colonies, excerpts from chap. 8 (“New England, 1600–1700”), pp. 159–172 (“English Puritans,” “The Great Migration,” Religion and Profit,” and “Land and Labor”) and 178–183 (“Bible Commonwealth,” to “religious toleration for all Protestants,” at top of p. 183); and excerpts from chap. 9 (“Puritans and Indians, 1600–1700”), pp. 188–191 (“Natives”) and pp. 193–197 (“Tribute” and “Pequot War”)

David Cressy, “‘The Vast and Furious Ocean’: Shipboard Socialization and the Atlantic Passage,” in Coming Over: Migration and Communication between England and New England in the Seventeenth Century (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987), chap. 6

Ronald Dale Karr, “‘Why Should You Be So Furious?’: The Violence of the Pequot War,” Journal of American History 85 (1998): 876–909 october 7–9: Rebellion in the English colonies

11. The explosion of New England: King Philip’s war (1675–1678) 12. Death, unfreedom, and rebellion in the Chesapeake (1619–1676)

Assigned reading:

Jill Lepore, “Habitations of Cruelty” and “Where Is Your O God?” in The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998), chaps. 3–4 (pp. 71–121, with endnotes at pp. 274–294)

James D. Drake, “Restraining Atrocity: The Conduct of King Philip’s War,” New England Quarterly 70 (1997): 33–56

document: Richard Frethorne (an indentured servant in Virginia) to his father and mother, March 20 and April 2–3, 1623, in The Records of the Virginia Company of London, ed. Susan Myra Kingsbury, vol. 4 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1935), pp. 58–62

document: Excerpts from Capt. Sir John Berry and Frances Moryson (royal commissioners sent to investigate the causes of Bacon’s rebellion), “A True Narrative of the Rise, Progresse, and Cessation of the Late Rebellion in Virginia …” (1677), in Narratives of the Insurrections, 1675–1690, ed. Charles M. Andrews (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1915), pp. 105–141 8 history 512:300

Suggested further reading:

Taylor, American Colonies, excerpt from chap. 9 (“Puritans and Indians, 1600–1700”), pp. 197–203 (“Praying Towns,” “King Philip’s War,” and “Victory and Defeat”); excerpt from chap. 7 (“Chesapeake Colonies, 1650–1750”), pp. 146–153 (“Rebellion” and “Great Planters”) october 14–16: midterm week

13. Asserting empire: The Duke of York’s dominion and New France (1664–1725) 14. in-class midterm examination

Assigned reading:

Excerpts from Edward Randolph (emissary of the Council for Trade and Plantations) to King Charles II, September 20, 1676, on his reception in Boston; and Randolph, “Representation of ye Affaires of N: England …” (1677), in Edward Randolph: Including His Letters and Official Papers …, 1676–1703, ed. Robert Noxon Toppan, 5 vols., vol. 2 (Boston, 1898), pp. 216–225 and 265–268 october 21–23: In the absence of empire: The late seventeenth century (film)

15. Expelling empire: The Pueblo revolt and the revolutions of 1688 (1680–1689) 16. recitation: Magic and the invisible world in New England (1670–1692)

document: Excerpts from Gov. Antonio de Otermín to Francisco de Ayeta, September 8, 1680; Juan Domínguez de Mendoza to Otermín, December 10, 1681; examination of Juan, a Tewa Indian, December 18, 1681; and examination of Pedro Naranjo, a Keresan Indian, shaman, and rebel leader, December 19, 1681, in Revolt of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Otermín’s Attempted Reconquest, 1680-1692, ed. Charles Wilson Hackett and trans. Charmion Clair Shelby, 2 vols. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1942), vol. 1, pp. 98–104, and vol. 2, pp. 225, 234–235, and 245–249

document: Rev. Samuel Willard, “A Brief Account of a Strange and Unusual Providence of God Befallen to Elizabeth Knapp of Groton,” in Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England: A Documentary History, 1638–1692, ed. David D. Hall (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1991), chap. 13, “A Servant ‘Possessed’ (1671–1672),” pp. 197–212

Richard Godbeer, “Rape of a Whole Colony: The 1692 Witch Hunt,” in The Devil’s Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. 179–222 colonial north america 9

film: The Crucible (1996, 2 hours and 4 minutes), directed by Nicholas Hytner from the play and screenplay by Arthur Miller, must be viewed before this Thursday’s recitation. You can rent ($2.99) or buy ($9.99) The Crucible from iTunes. A link can be found on Sakai, under “Resources,” along with a short movie review by Edmund S. Morgan (“Bewitched,” New York Review of Books, January 9, 1997, pp. 4–5), which is a required supplement to the film.

Suggested further reading:

Taylor, American Colonies, excerpt from chap. 4 (“The Spanish Frontier, 1530–1700”): “The New Mexico Missions” and “The Pueblo Revolt” (pp. 83–90); excerpt from chap. 13 (“Revolutions, 1685–1730”): “Dominion,” “Glorious Revolutions,” “Resolution,” “Compromise,” “Men and Money,” and “Colonial and Indian War” (pp. 276–292); and excerpt from chap. 12 (pp. 262–272 only)

University of Virginia Electronic Text Center, Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project (http://salem.lib.virginia.edu). This website conveniently collects contemporary books on witchcraft and maps and other primary documents relating to the Essex County crisis of 1692 —including the complete text of The Salem Witchcraft Papers: Verbatim Transcripts of the Legal Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak of 1692, ed. Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum (New York: Da Capo Press, 1977) october 28–30: New forms of slavery and freedom

17. Restoration nightmare and dream: South Carolina and Pennsylvania (1670–1700) 18. The worlds African slavery made (1650–1740)

Assigned reading:

William L. Ramsey, “‘Something Cloudy in Their Looks’: The Origins of the Yamasee War Reconsidered,” Journal of American History 90 (2003): 44–75

Ramsey, “Monsters and Men,” in The Yamasee War: A Study of Culture, Economy and Conflict in the Colonial South (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008), chap. 7, pp. 159–182, with endnotes at pp. 264–271

Eric Hinderaker, “Definitions of Value,” in Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673–1800 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997), chap. 3, pp. 87–133 (skim material on French Louisiana, and focus on the comparison with Pennsylvania)

Suggested further reading:

Taylor, American Colonies, chap. 11 (“Carolina, 1670–1760”); excerpt from chap. 12 (“Middle Colonies, 1600–1700”): “New Jersey,” Pennsylvania,” and “Diversity” (pp. 262–272); and chaps. 7 (“Chesapeake Colonies, 1650–1750”) and 10 (“The West Indies, 1600–1700”)wood 10 history 512:300 november 4–6: Experiencing unfreedom

19. Purchasing people: European servants and African slaves (1690–1750) 20. recitation: The face of slavery

Marcus Rediker, “From Captives to Shipmates,” in The Slave Ship: A Human History (New York: Viking Penguin, 2007; reprinted New York: Penguin Books, 2008), chap. 7, pp. 263– 307, with endnotes at pp. 400–407

Philip D. Morgan, “Three Planters and Their Slaves: Perspectives on Slavery in Virginia, South Carolina, and Jamaica, 1750–1790,” in Race and Family in the Colonial South, ed. Winthrop D. Jordan and Sheila L. Skemp (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1987), pp. 37–79

document: Thomas Thistlewood, “Notes on Plantation Life: 1755–1759,” in In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 1750–86, ed. Douglas Hall (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, 1989; reprinted Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 1999), chap. 4, pp. 66–91

document: Excerpts from James Knight’s unpublished manuscript, “The Natural, Moral, and Political History of Jamaica, and the Territories Thereon Depending … to the Year 1746,” 2 vols. (1746), vol. 2, chap. 6, in the collection of the British Library, London november 11–13: Raiders on land and sea

21. The cruel commerce of Atlantic piracy (1650–1726) 22. A kaleidoscope of violence: Horses, Comanches, and the West (1692–1846)

Assigned reading:

‘Capt. Charles Johnson’ (possibly Daniel Defoe), A General History of the Pyrates, 4th ed., 2 vols. (1726–1728), ed. Manuel Schonhorn (London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1972; reprinted New York: Dover Publications, 1999), vol. I, chaps. III–IV (Blackbeard and Stede Bonnet), pp. 71– 113; and vol. II, chap. XVI (William Fly), pp. 606–614

Pekka Hämäläinen, “The Politics of Grass: European Expansion, Ecological Change, and Indigenous Power in the Southwest Borderlands,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 67 (2010): 173–208

Shepard Krech III, “Buffalo,” in The Ecological Indian: Myth and History (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1999), chap. 5 colonial north america 11

Suggested further reading:

Taylor, American Colonies, excerpt from chap. 13 (“Revolutions, 1685–1730”): “Pirates” and “Commerce and Empire” (pp. 294–300); chap. 17 (“The Great Plains, 1680–1800”), complete

Marcus Rediker, Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age (Boston: Beacon Press, 2004) november 18–20: Anglicization and its enemies

23. video lecture: Stirring the seaports: Print, gentility, and Atlantic trade (1720–1750) 24. Indian and European revivals of religion (1739–1761)

note: The lecture for November 18—when Professor Silver has to deliver a paper before New York University’s Atlantic History Seminar—has been pre-recorded as a online video. It is posted on Sakai under “Resources” and should be viewed before Thursday’s meeting.

Assigned reading:

Richard L. Bushman, The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992; reprinted New York: Vintage Books, 1993), pp. 3–9 and 25–186

“Blackamore” [Benjamin Franklin], letter to editor of Pennsylvania Gazette, August 30, 1733, in Franklin, Writings, ed. J. A. Leo Lemay (New York: Library of America, 1987), pp. 218–220

Peter Silver, “An Unsettled Country,” in Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2008), chap. 1

Rhys Isaac, “Evangelical Revolt: The Nature of the Baptists’ Challenge to the Traditional Order in Virginia, 1765 to 1775,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 31 (1974): 345–368

Suggested further reading:

Taylor, American Colonies, excerpt from chap. 14 (“The Atlantic, 1700–80”): “News,” “Trade,” “Poverty,” “Goods,” “English Emigrants,” “Scots,” “Germans,” and “Pluralism” (pp. 302–323); and chap. 15 (“Awakenings, 1700–75”), pp. 339–362

T. H. Breen, “An Empire of Goods: The Anglicization of Colonial America,” Journal of British Studies 25 (1986): 467–499 12 history 512:300 november 25: Anatomy of a panic

25. recitation: New York City in flames (1741)

Jill Lepore, New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005; reprinted New York: Vintage Books, 2006), prologue (pp. 5–14); excerpts from chap. 1 (pp. 20–25 and 36–39); chap. 2 (pp. 40–63); excerpts from chap. 3 (pp. 64–70 and 78–92); excerpts from chap.4 (pp. 102–106 and 119–128); and excerpts from chap. 5 (pp. 129–138 and 144–169)

document: Daniel Horsmanden, A Journal of the Proceedings in the Detection of the Conspiracy Formed by Some White People, in Conjunction with Negro and Other Slaves, for Burning the City of New-York in America and Murdering the Inhabitants (New York, 1744; reprinted London, 1747), excerpts thanksgiving recess (november 27–30) december 2–4: The era of Jenkins’s ear (research essays due; field trip)

26. Making the world safe for slavery: Georgia and the struggle for the Southeast (1733–1743) 27. recitation: Empire vs. empire: The War of Jenkins’s Ear (1739–1744)

field trip: There will be a limited-enrollment field trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on Sunday, December 7, at 2:00 p.m., to view some of the fantastically rich eighteenth-century holdings of American material culture and art—including furniture, silver, textiles, ceramics, portraits, and the interiors of whole rooms furnished in period style—in the departments of American Decorative Arts and American Paintings and Sculpture. A link to a first-come, first-served online signup form will be posted at 2:30 p.m. on November 25.

Assigned reading:

Jane Landers, “Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mosa: A Free Black Town in Spanish Colonial Florida,” American Historical Review 95 (1990): 9–30

Peter H. Wood, “The Stono Rebellion and Its Consequences,” in Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974; reprinted New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1996), chap 12, pp. 308–330

Excerpts from Peter Silver, “A Rotten Colossus: British and Spanish America in the War of Jenkins’s Ear” (book manuscript, 2014)

document: Excerpts from Isaac Morris, A Narrative of the Dangers and Distresses Which Befel Isaac Morris, and Seven More of the Crew, Belonging to the Wager … Containing an Account of Their Adventures, after They Were Left … on an Uninhabited Part of Patagonia … colonial north america 13

’Till They Were Seized by a Party of Indians, and Carried above a Thousand Miles into the Inland Country … (London, [1751]) december 9: Life in North America: Deep structures and transformations to come

28. Night flight over an unfinished empire (1670–1750)

Assigned reading:

Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Books IV–V, ed. Andrew Skinner (London: Penguin Books, 1999; orig. pub. London, 1776), bk. 4, chap. 7 (“Of Colonies”), pt. 3 (“Of the Advantages which Europe Has Derived from the Discovery of America,” paragraphs 63 (starting,“To found a great empire”)–85 (“At first sight, no doubt”); and bk. 5, chap. 3 (“Of Public Debts”), paragraphs 66 (“That the public revenue”)–end, pp. 197–212 and 535–551 final examination (not yet scheduled)