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TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. VIKING EXPLORATION
1. A Brief History of Eric the Red
2. A Brief History of the Greenlanders
II. JOHN SMITH
III. WILLIAM BRADFORD
IV. JOHN WINTHROP
1. A Model of Christian Charity (1630)
V. MARY ROWLANDSON
1. A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682)
VI. ANNE BRADSTREET
VII. COTTON MATHER
1. The Trial of Martha Carrier at the Court of Oyer and Terminet, Held by Adjournment at Salem, August 2, 1692
2. A Notable Exploit; Dux Faemina Facti (1697)
VIII. SARAH WHIPPLE GOODHUE
1. The Copy of a Valedictory and Monitory Writing (1681)
IX. SARAH KEMBLE KNIGHT
1. From The Private Journal of a Journey from Boston to New York (1704-1705)
X. JONATHAN EDWARDS
1. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741)
XI. MARY JEMISON
1. A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (1823)
XII. PONTIAC
1. Speech at Detroit (c. 1763)
XIII. SAMSON OCCOM
1. From A Short Narrative of My Life (1768)
XIV. MERCY OTIS WARREN
1. "A Political Reverie" (1774)
2. The Squabble of the Sea Nymphs, or the Sacrifice of the Tuscaroroes (1774)
XV. THOMAS PAINE
1. From Common Sense (1776)
XVI. THOMAS JEFFERSON
1. Draft of The Declaration of Independence (1776)
XVII. ANNA YOUNG SMITH
1. An Elegy to the Memory of the American Volunteers Who Fell in the Engagement between the Massachusetts-Bay Militia, and the British Troops, April 19, 1775
XVIII. JOHN ADAMS and ABIGAIL ADAMS
XIX. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
1. “The Way to Wealth”: Preface to Poor Richard Improved (1758)
2. “Information to Those Who Would Remove to America” (1782)
XX. J. HECTOR ST. JOHN DE CREVECOEUR
XXI. OLAUDAH EQUIANO
XXII. PHILLIS WHEATLEY
XXIII. JUPITER HAMMON
1. An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly
2. An Address to the Negroes in the State of New-York
XXIV. LEMUEL HAYNES
1. Liberty Further Extended (1776)
XXV. HENDRICK AUPAUMUT
1. A Short Narration of My Last Journey to the Western Contry (1794)
XXVI. WASHINGTON IRVING
1. Rip Van Winkle (1819) from The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon
2. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) from The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon
XXVII. JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
XXVIII. RALPH WALDO EMERSON
XXIX. SARAH MARGARET FULLER
1. Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1843)
XXX. HENRY DAVID THOREAU
XXXI. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
XXXII. EDGAR ALLAN POE
1. “The Black Cat” (1845)
2. “The Purloined Letter” (1845)
XXXIII. HERMAN MELVILLE
1. “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street” (1856)
2. “Benito Cereno” (1855)
XXXIV. WILLIAM APESS
1. An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man (1833)
XXXV. CAROLINE KIRKLAND
XXXVI. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
1. Declaration of Sentiments (1848)
XXXVII. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
XXXVIII. FREDERICK DOUGLASS
XXXIX. HARRIET ANN JACOBS
XL. SOJOURNER TRUTH
1. Women's Rights Convention Speech (1851)
2. Address to the First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association (1867)
XLI. WALT WHITMAN
1. “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” (1856)
2. “When Lilacs Last in Dooryard Bloom’d” (1865)
XLII. EMILY DICKINSON

The Renewable Anthology of Early American Literature

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

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