Mary Rowlandson

1635 -1711
Mrs. Mary White Rowlandson was a Puritan resident of the Massachusetts Bay Colony who was captured by Native Americans and held for 11 weeks before being ransomed in 1676. Her later memoir of these events became the first American best-seller, going through four editions in one year.

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This member of order of preachers, a 16th-century social reformer and Dominican friar, served as the first resident bishop of Chiapas and the first officially appointed "protector of the Indians." The most famous A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies and Historia de Las Indias of his extensive writings chronicle the first decades of colonization of the west and focus particularly on the atrocities that the colonizers committed against the indigenous.

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Hannah Webster Foster (September 10, 1758 – April 17, 1840) was an American novelist.

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Black Hawk

born 1767

Black Hawk, originally Makataimeshekiakiak, a noted leader of Sauk, fought with the British against the Americans in the war of 1812 and opposed policies of Keokuk of accommodation with the government of the United States; its troops in a brief known conflict of 1832 defeated him.

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John Winthrop

Puritan (Calvinist) Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony and co-founder of the settlement that became Boston.
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People first published this first notable colonial woman. Her work much influenced Puritans in her time.

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Phillis Wheatley (1753 – December 5, 1784?) was the first professional African American poet and the first African-American woman whose writings were published. Born in Gambia, Senegal, she was enslaved at age eight. She was purchased by the Wheatley family of Boston, who taught her to read and write, and helped encourage her poetry.

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Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History, Harvard College Professor, and chair of Harvard's History and Literature Program. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker.

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Olaudah Equiano, also known as Gustavus Vassa, was one of the most prominent Africans involved in the British movement of the abolition for the slave trade. Although enslaved as a young man, he purchased his freedom and worked as an author, merchant, and explorer in South America, the Caribbean, the Arctic, the American colonies, and the United Kingdom.
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James C. Bradford

James C. Bradford, Professor Emeritus, Texas A&M University, has served as president of the North American Society for Oceanic History, held the Class of 1957 Distinguished Chair in Naval Heritage at the U.S. Naval Academy, and received the Commodore Dudley W. Knox Naval History Lifetime Achievement Award from the Naval Historical Foundation.
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