Early American and Colonial Period to 1776
Myths, legends, tales, and lyrics (always songs)
The Literature of Exploration
Litterature in the Middle and Southern Colonies
William Byrd (1674 - 1744)
History of the Dividing Line.
Robert Beverley (1673 - 1722)
The History and Present Sate of Virginia.
Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa) (1745 - 1797)
First Black American to write a biography. "Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano"
Jupiter Hammon (1720 - 1800)
An address to the Negroes on the State of New York" "And Evenign Thought"
The Colonial Period in New England
Subtopic
William Bradford (1590-1657)
Of Plymouth Plantation , Mayflower Compact
Anne Bradstreet (1612 - 1672)
Poems. The Ten muse Lately Sprung in America. "To My Dear and Loving Husband".
Edward Taylor (1644 - 1729)
Meterical History of Christianity.
Michel Wiggleswort (1631 - 1705)
The Day of Doom.
Samuel Sewall (1652 - 1730)
Governnor John Winthrop´s Diary.
Mary Rowlandson (1663 - 1728)
The Redeem Captive.
Cotton Mather (1663 - 1728)
Magnalia Christy Americana.
Roger Williams (1603 - 11683)
A key into the Languages of America.
John Woolman (1720 - 1772)
First Antislavery writer. "Some considerations on the Keeping of Negroes".
Jonathan Edwards (1703 - 1758)
"Sinners in the hand of an Angry God"