History Web Links: Colonial America
Dr. Chris Schutz, Tennessee Wesleyan College

 
 
 
Pre-Columbian Native American Civilizations
Aztec Civilization:
      --Washington State University website on the Aztecs
      --Univ. of Minnesota Duluth website on ancient Middle America
Overviews of the Maya civilization
     --(from the Canadian Museum of Civilization)
     -- from a Cancun society:
Inca Civilization:
     --Minnesota State University-Mankato's website on Inca 
     --PBS Nova's website on excavation of Inca civilization
     --National Geographic website on an excavation of Inca civilization

 
Native Americans in Colonial America
Constitution of the Iroquois Nation

 
17th Century Colonial Life
An interactive overview of the regional population composition in early 17th century North America
The Mayflower Compact, 1620
John Winthrop's 1630 "City on a Hill" sermon, which he delivered a
missionary statement to the settlers establishing the Massachusetts Bay
Colony

 
 
Slavery in Colonial America
The text of 17th century laws which began to discriminate and separate
African Americans from the rest of the American population, as the colonies
clearly shifted from using indentured servants to slaves as laborers
A copy of an advertisement announcing the sale of a shipment of enslaved
Africans
The blueprint of the dimensions of the holding quarters of a slave ship
1788 account of  slave ship surgeon Alexander Falconbridge's observations
on the slave trade
Matter-of-fact diary account of handling slaves by Virginia planter William
Byrd, 1709-1711
1732 "Notices" of runaway slaves (published so that they might be returned
to their owners)
1739 Letter from South Carolina Lieutenant Governor to officials in England,
informing them of the Stono slave rebellion
Official South Carolina legislature statement rewarding those slaves who
helped capture the 1739 Stono slave rebellion insurgents

 
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