Introduction

John
Smith

William
Bradford

Anne
Bradstreet

John
Winthrop

Roger
Williams

Michael
Wigglesworth

Edward
Taylor

Cotton
Mather

Mary
Rowlandson

Samuel
Sewall

Sarah
Knight

William
Byrd

Jonathan
Edwards

St. Jean de
Crevecoeur

Benjamin
Franklin

Thomas
Paine

Thomas
Jefferson

Philip
Freneau

Phillis
Wheatley

Washington
Irving

Nathaniel
Hawthorne

Ralph Waldo
Emerson

Henry David
Thoreau

Margaret
Fuller

Herman
Melville

Harriet
Jacobs

Frederick
Douglass

The Cherokee
Memorials

Olaudah
Equiano