In Their Own Words: The Colonizers
Language: English
Published by Perigee Trade, 1998
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- Title
- In Their Own Words: The Colonizers
- Author
- Various
- Publisher
- Perigee Trade
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0399523901
- ISBN 13
- 9780399523908
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- American History
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From the Author
The Colonizers is an unusual book. It follows the first century and a half of American history--from the founding of Jamestown and Quebec through the French and Indian War--through first-person accounts, woven together with my own narrative. The words of eyewitnesses bring us face to face with a world long shrouded in myth and legend.
Here, for example, is Captain John Smith, revealing himself to be a ruthless soldier of fortune. He wrote of the Indians: "Now we have just cause to destroy them by all means possible.... What growing state was there ever in the world which did not the like? Rome grew by oppression, and rose upon the backs of her enemies." Here, too, is Samuel de Champlain, describing his alliance-building among the Algonquins and Hurons, and how he joined their attacks on the Five Nations of the Iroquois. Here are the voices of the early colonists in New England, New Netherlands/New York, and Virginia as they struggled with dissent and Indian wars.
As the voices in this book recount the growing European settlements in North America, they describe a world we can scarcely imagine. The experience of Mary Rowlandson, taken captive by the Narragansetts in King Philip's War, which destroyed dozens of New England towns... The twin experiences of captivity, in the story of Rev. John Williams (captured in a raid on Massachusetts by French and Indian warriors), and in the memoirs of Olaudah Equiano, an African of Benin who was carried off to America in chains. Here is the torment of the Salem witch trials, seen in the lament of one sceptic who wrote, "I am afraid ages will not wear off that reproach and those stains which these things will leave behind upon our land." And here, too, is the final, dramatic conflict between the British and French colonists, which set the stage for the American revolution.
It was a fascinating world, a violent world, a world startlingly different from our own. I hope these voices can make it real to us today.
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