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Instructions for the New World

all, you are to work diligently in those things that pertain to the service of God and ensure that divine services are conducted with much respect, order, and reverence. His first priority is making sure that everything is done in accordance with the

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Negotiating the Surrender of New Netherland

and who was at fault. This document, collected during their investigation, is the eye-witness account of two Dutch soldiers who were working for the Dutch West India Company during the surrender. The soldiers told the government that Lydia de Meyer

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Tobacco Brides

Encounters, 1492-1734. Elementary School. High School. Middle School. Region. Resource Type. Slavery. South. Themes. Topics. Units. Work, Labor, and Economy. 1690. 1691. 1692. 1693. 1694. 1695. 1696. 1697. 1698. 1699. 1700. 1701. 1702. 1703. 1704. 1705. 1706

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Life Story: Kateri Tekakwitha (1656-1680)

missionaries who visited their village. In 1669 the Mohawk were attacked by the Mahican, a neighboring tribe that wanted to take control of the fur trade. Kateri and other young Mohawk women worked alongside Jesuit missionaries to care for the sick and wounded

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English Colonies

Virginia, Maryland, and the Carolinas, most of the white colonists were young poor people. They arrived as servants indentured to a small community of wealthy people who wanted cheap labor to grow tobacco on their plantations. They came hoping to work their

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The Last Will and Testament of Joseph Grover

I give and bequeath unto my son James two cows and working steers of four years old and his Sows for to brood up swine, and two horses, and a feather bed with furniture thereunto belonging and an axe and an hoe and a plow share and all these above

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Life Story: Weetamoo (ca. 1635-40 – ca. 1676)

father. In addition to the traditional women’s work of agriculture, preparing hides, hunting small animals, fishing, and cooking, Weetamoo was trained to fight and learned diplomacy and leadership by observing her father. Weetamoo grew up in a world

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French Colonies

themselves. Enslaved black women bore the weight of the empire’s preoccupation with profiting from the slave trade, and openly fought against the confines of enslavement. Ursuline nuns migrated from France to work at the front lines of the mission to convert

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