colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

A collection of historical documents, including letters, speeches, and records of treaty negotiations, which provides a Native American perspective on the events of the colonial era, focusing on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Focuses mainly on slavery and the slave trade in colonial America.

Poetess and freed slave Phillis Wheatley writes a poem celebrating General George Washington's leadership in the American Revolution, and is invited to his camp to meet the future president.

Poetess and freed slave Phillis Wheatley writes a poem celebrating General George Washington's leadership in the American Revolution, and is invited to his camp to meet the future president.

A biography of the African slave who was taken in and educated by a Boston couple and became well-known because of the poetry she wrote.

Contains the six-volume American Girl series featuring Felicity Merriman, a nine-year-old girl who lives in colonial Williamsburg, Virginia in 1774, just before the Revolutionary War.

A biography of the Puritan woman who was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for disagreeing with the prevailing religious practices.

Chronicles the history of the origins of the United States, focusing on the role of Native Americans in its discovery and development.