Syllabus for Early Americas: North America in a Global Framework

Section 1: Exploration and Discovery to 1600

• Columbus
• De Las Casas
• Castillo
• Cabeza de Vaca
• Hans Staden
• Sir Walter Raleigh
• Thomas Hariot
• Samuel de Champlain

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Section 2: New World Identities: Regional Exploration and Contact

• New Spain
  • El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
  • Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala
  • Juana Inés de la Cruz
• New France
  • Jerome Lalemant
  • Louis Hennepin
  • Chretian Le Clercq

• Middle Atlantic
  • Powahatan & John Smith Dialogues
  • Richard Ligon
  • John Lederer
  • Nathaniel Bacon
• New England
  • Thomas Morton
  • John Winthrop
  • William Bradford
  • Anne Bradstreet
  • Anne Hutchinson
  • Cotton Mather

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Section 3: Contested Visions: Revolution and Nation

• Sarah Kemble Knight
• Benjamin Franklin
• Samson Occom
• Toussaint L'Ouverture
• Olaudah Equiano
• Briton Hammon
• Jon Marrant
• Judith Sargent Murray
• Phillis Wheatley

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