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Contents
CHAPTER XIV — INTELLECTUAL LIFE | |
| 90. Reverend President Thomas Clap: "The History of Yale-College," 1698-1717 |
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| 91. Reverend Mather Byles: "A poetical Lamentation, occasioned by the Death of His late Majesty' King George the First," 1727 |
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| 92. Reverend Cotton Mather: "Some Account of the Earthquake that shook New-England," 1727 |
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| 93. Reverend Doctor Increase Mather: A Protest against a Wicked Newspaper, 1722 |
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| 94. Benjamin Franklin: The People's Favorite Literature, 1744 |
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| 95. Nathaniel Ames: A Skit on College Examinations, 1784 |
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| 96. Francis Hopkinson: A Skit on College Examinations, 1784 |
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CHAPTER XV — RELIGIOUS LIFE | |
| 97. Lewis Morris: "The State of Religion in the Jerseys," 1700 |
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| 98. Thomas Story: A Quaker's Arguments with Orthodox Ministers, 1704 |
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| 99. Reverend John Wesley: An Evangelist in Georgia, 1736-1737 |
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| 100. Governor Jonathan Belcher: A Good Man's Letter, 1752 |
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| 101. Archbishop Thomas Secker: A Plan for American Bishops, 1758 |
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CHAPTER XVI — SLAVERY AND SERVITUDE | |
| 102. Monthly Meeting of the Germantown Quakers: The First Vote against Slavery, 1688 |
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| 103. "Hon'ble Judge Sewall in New England": The Selling of Joseph, 1700 |
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| 104. Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations: A Slave Act Disallowed, 1709 |
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| 105. Owners and Masters: All Sorts of Runaways, 1741-1750 |
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| 106. John Woolman: Exercise of a Quaker Abolitionist's Mind, 1757 |
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| 107. William Eddis: The Wretchedness of White Servants, 1770 |
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| 108. George Washington: "Desire of Importing Palatines," 1774 |
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