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- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Housatonic_Community_College/American_Literature_Survey/02%3A_Week_X_New_England/2.04%3A_Mary_Rowlandson/2.4.03%3A_Student_Responses_to_Mary_Rowlandson/2.4.3.03%3A_Perspective_of_One-Eyed_John_from_the_First_Remove.they come to us and say we have little to no understanding, and we are barbarous with our arrows and axes. how they might seem to think, we are the killer and the devilish creatures. The praying India...they come to us and say we have little to no understanding, and we are barbarous with our arrows and axes. how they might seem to think, we are the killer and the devilish creatures. The praying Indians from Marlborough’s, when Captain Mosley had brought us to Boston, showing us the other side of the Englishmen. we strive to see what they are made of, if they have the strength to push through all this, just as we do day to day dealing with their abusive actions.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Housatonic_Community_College/American_Literature_Survey/01%3A_Week_X_First_Encounters/1.01%3A_Indigenous_Stories/1.1.04%3A_Of_the_Girl_who_Married_Mount_Katahdin_(Penobscot)And one day when they had angered her, she thought, “Truly Katahdin was right; these people are in nowise worthy of my son, neither shall he serve them; he shall not lead them to victory; they are not...And one day when they had angered her, she thought, “Truly Katahdin was right; these people are in nowise worthy of my son, neither shall he serve them; he shall not lead them to victory; they are not of those who make a great nation.” And being still further teased and tormented, she spake and said, “Ye fools, who by your own folly will kill yourselves; ye mud-wasps, who sting the fingers which would pick ye out of the water, why will ye ever trouble me to tell you what you well know?
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Housatonic_Community_College/American_Literature_Survey/09%3A_Week_X_Transcendentalism/9.02%3A_Ralph_Waldo_Emerson/9.2.02%3A_Introduction_(2017)From Columbus’s conquest, to the pilgrim’s plight of religious freedom and voyage into this wild and unknown continent, to the manifestation of manifest destiny, to the industrial revolution, the civi...From Columbus’s conquest, to the pilgrim’s plight of religious freedom and voyage into this wild and unknown continent, to the manifestation of manifest destiny, to the industrial revolution, the civil rights movement, to many wars waged, “Self Reliance” could be cited as their credo, for better or for worse.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Housatonic_Community_College/American_Literature_Survey/02%3A_Week_X_New_England/2.03%3A_Thomas_Morton
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Housatonic_Community_College/American_Literature_Survey/10%3A_Week_X_White_Women_Writing_Slavery/10.04%3A_Student_Responses_to_Stowe/10.4.01%3A_Introduction_(2017)This novel explores the cruelties of slavery in the South, while shedding light on the human failures on all sides of the slave trade. They are all of mulatto lineage, meaning a mixture of black and w...This novel explores the cruelties of slavery in the South, while shedding light on the human failures on all sides of the slave trade. They are all of mulatto lineage, meaning a mixture of black and white.Through this and the aspects of Christianity and family, Stowe was able to appeal more to the white apologists, abolitionists, and others who were ignorant of the truths of slavery.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Housatonic_Community_College/American_Literature_Survey/10%3A_Week_X_White_Women_Writing_Slavery/10.04%3A_Student_Responses_to_Stowe/10.4.02%3A_Introduction_(2016)It is an important text because it shined a spotlight upon the tragedy of slavery in The United States and by doing so it opened eyes to the horrors, hearts to the humanity and minds to equality, thus...It is an important text because it shined a spotlight upon the tragedy of slavery in The United States and by doing so it opened eyes to the horrors, hearts to the humanity and minds to equality, thus helping bring an end to slavery.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Housatonic_Community_College/American_Literature_Survey/07%3A_Week_X_Supernatural_Tales/7.02%3A_Washington_Irving/7.2.01%3A_Introduction_(2017)That it was affirmed that the great Hendrick Hudson, the first discoverer of the river and country, kept a kind of vigil there every twenty years, with his crew of the Half-moon; being permitted in th...That it was affirmed that the great Hendrick Hudson, the first discoverer of the river and country, kept a kind of vigil there every twenty years, with his crew of the Half-moon; being permitted in this way to revisit the scenes of his enterprise, and keep a guardian eye upon the river, and the great city called by his name” (22-23).
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Literature_and_Literacy/American_Literature/The_Open_Anthology_of_Earlier_American_Literature_(DeRosa_Goode_et_al.)/22%3A_Edgar_Allan_Poe/22.01%3A_Introduction_to_Edgar_Allan_Poe_(2015)Poe is regarded for being one of the most famous authors to come from the Romantic period, he is also considered to be on of America’s first short story writer. It was at this point in his life when h...Poe is regarded for being one of the most famous authors to come from the Romantic period, he is also considered to be on of America’s first short story writer. It was at this point in his life when he would truly have the falling out with his adopted father (his adopted mother already dead). After publishing his book of poems and separating from his adopted father, he switched his focus to prose.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Literature_and_Literacy/American_Literature/The_Open_Anthology_of_Earlier_American_Literature_(DeRosa_Goode_et_al.)/01%3A_Native_American_and_Ethnographic_Texts_(2015)/1.02%3A_The_Peyote_Cult_(Plains)But why should you act thus a If you partake of it, even if you feel some uncertainty about its accomplishing all the good that has been said of it, I know that you will say to yourself, “Well, this l...But why should you act thus a If you partake of it, even if you feel some uncertainty about its accomplishing all the good that has been said of it, I know that you will say to yourself, “Well, this life is good enough.” After you have taken it for the first time, it will seem as if they are digging a grave for you, that you are about to die; and you will not want to take it again. “It is bad,” you will think to yourself.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Literature_and_Literacy/American_Literature/The_Open_Anthology_of_Earlier_American_Literature_(DeRosa_Goode_et_al.)/29%3A_Harriet_Beecher_Stowe/29.13%3A_Stowe_was_WhiteHe is described fully on page 7 of the text, saying that “[h]is whole appearance betokened Herculean strength” and “His broad mouth and nose spoke only of food nature and kindness” and that he could “...He is described fully on page 7 of the text, saying that “[h]is whole appearance betokened Herculean strength” and “His broad mouth and nose spoke only of food nature and kindness” and that he could “terrify as well as charm.” his brow was described as “dark and glossy as the raven’s wing.” Douglass does not hide the color of his hero; he paints him in a way that shows that even as a black man, Madison can still be full of goodness.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Literature_and_Literacy/American_Literature/The_Open_Anthology_of_Earlier_American_Literature_(DeRosa_Goode_et_al.)/24%3A_Henry_David_Thoreau/24.02%3A_Where_I_Lived_and_What_I_Lived_For_from_WaldenThe real attractions of the Hollowell farm, to me, were: its complete retirement, being, about two miles from the village, half a mile from the nearest neighbor, and separated from the highway by a br...The real attractions of the Hollowell farm, to me, were: its complete retirement, being, about two miles from the village, half a mile from the nearest neighbor, and separated from the highway by a broad field; its bounding on the river, which the owner said protected it by its fogs from frosts in the spring, though that was nothing to me; the gray color and ruinous state of the house and barn, and the dilapidated fences, which put such an interval between me and the last occupant; the hollow a…
