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Europeans I: British» Text Links / Note / Discussion Questions
| - | Memoirs
- - Benjamin Franklin creates his young adult life as a printer, 1720s-1730s
- - Moraley creates his young adult life as an indentured servant, 1729-1734
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| - | Portraits
- - Benjamin Franklin, by Robert Feke, 1736-1748
- - Captain-Lieutenant John Larrabee, by Joseph Badger, ca. 1750
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Native Americans» Text Links / Note / Discussion Questions
| - | Indians and colonists view each other, selections from journals, letters, memoirs, and treaty negotiations, 1710-1760 |
| - | A Mohegan becomes a Christian minister, narrative of Samson Occom, 1768 |
| Portraits by European artists |
| - | Iroquois leaders, New York/Great Lakes, oils by John Verelst, 1710; overview from the Portrait Gallery of Canada |
| - | Lenni Lenape leaders, Pennsylvania, oils by Gustavus Hesselius, 1735; overview by K. A. Lockridge, University of Montana |
| - | Yuchi Indians, Georgia, watercolors by P. G. F. von Reck, 1736; overview from the Royal Library of Denmark |
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African Americans» Text Links / Note / Discussion Questions
| - | Black and white colonial Americans view each other, selections from journals, letters, narratives, and official reports |
| - | Three depictions of African Americans by white artists, 1710-1761 |
| - | Two views of the Stono Rebellion: white and black, 1739 & ca. 1937 |
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Women» Text Links / Note / Discussion Questions
| - | Mary Cooper records five years as a Long Island farmwife, 1768-1773 |
| - | Eliza Pinckney records her management of South Carolina plantations, 1739-1762 |
| - | Mary Jemison recalls her capture and adoption by Seneca Indians, 1758-1780s |
| - | Elizabeth Ashbridge recounts her path to becoming a Quaker, 1730s |
| - | Jane Turell pens a spiritual journey through grief, 1720s-1735
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Images:
- John Hesselius (American, 1728-1778), Charles Calvert and His Slave, 1761, oil on canvas, 50 1/4 x 39 7/8 in. (127.7 x 101.3 cm.). The Baltimore Museum of Art: Gift of Alfred R. and Henry G. Riggs, in Memory of General Lawrason Riggs, BMA 1941.4
- William Williams, portrait of Deborah Hall, oil on canvas, 1766 (detail). Brooklyn Museum of Art. Permission pending.
- Unidentified artist, portrait of Phillis Wheatley, engraving by Scipio Moorhead; frontispiece of Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, London, 1773 (detail). Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, #LC-DIG-ppmsca-02947.
- Philip Georg Friedrich von Reck, drawing captioned "The Indian King and Queen of the Yuchis" (colonial Georgia), 1736 (detail). Reproduced by permission of the Royal Library of Denmark.
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