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Lope de Aguirre:Letter to King Philip of Spain
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Abstract
Born in 1510 in the Basque country, Lope de Aguirre was a Spanish soldier and conquistador active in South America during the reign of Phillip II. Aguirre is best known in contemporary culture and colonial historiography for his final, ill-fated expedition down the Amazon in search of the mythical golden Kingdom El Dorado.
Book contents
- Chapter 1: Motivations for Exploration and Colonization
- Christopher Columbus: Letter to Raphael Sanxis on the Discovery of America
- Hernán Cortés: Second Letter to Charles V
- Lope de Aguirre: Letter to King Philip of Spain
- “A True and Sincere Declaration of the Purpose and Ends of the Plantation Begun in Virginia”
- Samuel de Champlain: Voyages
- Fray Antonio de la Ascension: A Brief Report of the Discovery in New Spain
- John Smith: The Generall Historie of Virginia
- Father Paul Le Jeune: “Brief Relation of the Journey to New France”
- Adriaen Van der Donck: Description of the New-Netherlands
- Chapter 2: Culture, Contact, and Contest
- Iroquois Thanksgiving Address
- Requerimiento
- The Journey of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
- Hernando Pizarro: Letter to the Royal Audience of Santo Domingo
- Bartolomé de las Casas: A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
- Bernal Díaz del Castillo: The True History of the Conquest of New Spain
- John White: “Americæ pars, nunc Virginia dicta”
- Johannes Megapolensis Jr.: A Short Account of the Mohawk Indians
- Declaration of Pedro Naranjo of the Queres Nation
- Chapter 3: Founding Ideals
- Letter of Edward Winslow to a Friend
- Margaret Brent's Request for Voting Rights
- Maryland Toleration Act
- Habeas Corpus Act of the Restoration
- By the King, a Proclamation for the More Effectual Reducing and Suppressing of Pirates and Privateers in America
- Declaration of the Gentlemen, Merchants and Inhabitants of Boston, and the Country Adjacent
- English Bill of Rights
- John Locke: Second Treatise on Civil Government
- William Byrd II: Representation Concerning Proprietary Governments
- Benjamin Franklin: “Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge among the British Plantations in America”
- Benjamin Franklin: “The Way to Wealth”
- John Carwitham: “A South East View of the Great Town of Boston in New England in America”
- Chapter 4: Experiments in Government
- New Laws of the Indies
- For the Colony in Virginea Britannia: Lawes Divine, Morall and Martiall
- Mayflower Compact
- An Ordinance and Constitution of Treasurer and Company in England for a Council and Assembly in Virginia
- Frame of Government of Pennsylvania
- Edmund Andros: Report of His Administration
- Letters of Governor Alexander Spotswood
- Benjamin Franklin: “Exporting of Felons to the Colonies”
- Roger Sherman: A Caveat against Injustice
- Benjamin Franklin: Letter to Peter Collinson on the Plan of Union
- Benjamin Franklin: Albany Plan of Union
- Chapter 5: Wars and Empires
- Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs Mary Rowlandson
- Father le Petit: Letter to Father d'Avaugour, Procurator of the Missions in North America
- John Mason: A Brief History of the Pequot War
- Henry Bouquet: Letter to William Allen in the Expedition to Fort Duquesne
- Simeon Ecuyer: Journal from Fort Pitt
- Proclamation of 1763
- Chapter 6: Rank, Raids, and Rebellions
- Richard Frethorne: Letter to His Parents
- Charles I: Speech on the Scaffold
- Oliver Cromwell: Speech at the Opening of the Protectorate Parliament
- Virginia's Act V: An Act for Punishment of Scandalous Persons
- Nathaniel Bacon: Manifesto
- Daniel Horsmanden: The New-York Conspiracy
- Elizabeth Sprigs: Letter to Her Father
- Benjamin Franklin: The Paxton Boys' Murder of the Conestoga India
- “A Few Lines on Magnus Mode, Richard Hodges & J. Newington Clark”
- Chapter 7: Slavery and the Slave Trade
- John Rolfe: “Letter to Sir Edwin Sandys”
- Virginia's Act XII: Negro Women's Children to Serve according to the Condition of the Mother
- Virginia's Act III: Baptism Does Not Exempt Slaves from Bondage
- Richard Ligon: A True & Exact History of the Island of Barbados
- “A Minute against Slavery, Addressed to Germantown Monthly Meeting”
- James Oglethorpe: “An Account of the Negroe Insurrection in South Carolina”
- South Carolina Slave Code
- John Woolman: Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes
- Briton Hammon: A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man
- Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre: “Reflections on Slavery”
- Chapter 8: Religion and Social Order
- John Winthrop: “A Model of Christian Charity”
- Massachusetts Bay Colony Trial against Anne Hutchinson
- Roger Williams: The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience
- Anne Bradstreet: “Before the Birth of One of Her Children”
- Anne Bradstreet: “To My Dear and Loving Husband”
- Declaration of Protestant Subjects in Maryland
- Cotton Mather: Late Memorable Providences Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions
- Answer of Mary Bradbury and Testimony of Thomas Bradbury
- Ann Putnam: Confession
- Benjamin Colman: Some Observations on Receiving the SMALL-POX by Ingrafting or Inoculating
- Jonathan Edwards: “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
- Samson Occom: “A Short Narrative of My Life”