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This Land: A History of the United States
Primary Sources:
1701 - 1775

1720 - Journal of John Woolman    Text

1724 - Black Code in Louisiana under Louis XIV    Text

1732 - Runaway Slave Notices - South Carolina Gazette   Text

1740 - Gilbert Tennent - The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry   Text

1740 - Nathan Cole - George Whitefield Comes to Middletown   Text

1741 - Jonathan Edwards - "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"   Text

1754 - Benjamin Franklin - Albany Plan of Union   Text

1754 - Gottlieb Mittelberger - On the Misfortune of Indentured Servants   Text

1757 - Rev. Peter Fontaine - Defense of Slavery in Virginia   Text

1764 - Remonstrance of the Pennsylvania Frontiersmen on the Indians   Text

1765 - Quartering Act - Parliament   Text

1765 - Stamp Act - Parliament  Text

1765 - Journal of the Stamp Act Congress   Text

1765 - Stamp Act Congress - Resolutions on the Stamp Act   Text

1770 - Anonymous account of Boston Massacre   Text

1770 - Captain Thomas Preston's account of the Boston Massacre   Text

1771 - Ad Seeking Runaway Slave - Newark, New Jersey   Text

1773 - Phillis Wheatley - Poems   Text

1773 - Tea Act - Parliament  Text

1774 - Petition of a Great Number of Blacks   Text

1774 - Quebec Act - Parliament  Text

1774 - John Wesley - Thoughts Upon Slavery   Text

1774 - Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress  Text

1775 - Patrick Henry - "Liberty or Death" speech   Text

1775 - Junípero Serra - Writings  Text




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