1. Colonial Literature

2. Pilgrims and Puritans WHY America?! British Social System Religious Persecution Poverty Profit Excitement/Adventure

3. Southern Pilgrims NOT PURITANS:Christians/Loyal to King –Jamestown, Virginia –Rough winter (Disease) –No religious persecution; Came to make a profit –Tied to Britain –Lived far apart (Beginning of plantation life) –Milder climate led to easier farming; more financial gain –Saw themselves as educated aristocrats –Slavery here from the very beginning

4. Southern Pilgrims Wrote mostly about… Struggles with life and new place (detailed accounts) Experiences both good and bad Letters, Diaries, Journals Ornate Style- Fancier, More Descriptive, More Sophisticated

5. John Smith Adventurer, proud, boastful, persuasive, exaggerated; was bored in England, decided to join a group going to the New World. A good leader; lots of experience as explorer and businessman, could control possible unruly elements; settlers and Indians Returned to England eventually (injury?); never came back to America wanted to return, and to gain financial support, wrote the advertisement ‘A Description of New England’

6. Original text: ‘Who can desire more content, that has small means or but only his merit to advance his fortune, than to tread and plant that ground he has purchased by the hazard of his life?’ Restated: What more could a person (who is poor but hardworking and intelligent) want than to be able to farm and profit from his own land (land he has risked everything to have)? Original text: ‘If he have but the taste of virtue and magnanimity, what to such a mind can be more pleasant than planting and building a foundation for his posterity, got from the rude earth by God’s blessing and his own industry, without prejudice to any?’ Restated: If he is a virtuous, generous person, what can be more pleasant to him than being able to work the earth for his own benefit?

7. If a person has interest in spreading religion, he can please God and hurt no one by coming to convert the Indians to Christianity and the ways of civilization. Original text: Restated: ‘If he have any grain of faith of zeal in religion, what can he do less hurtful to any or more agreeable to God than to seek to convert those poor savages to know Christ and humanity.’ Original text: Restated: ‘What so truly suits with honor and honesty as the discovering things unknown, erecting towns, peopling countries, informing the ignorant, reforming things unjust, teaching virtue, and gain to our native mother-country a kingdom to attend her, find employment for those that are idle because they know not what to do?’ What could be more honorable and honest than to explore the unknown, build towns, populate countries, teach the ignorant, eliminate injustice, teach virtue, and build a land that can contribute to the glory of England, and find work for those who have no work?

8. ‘This is so far from wronging any as to cause posterity to remember thee, And remembering thee, ever honor that remembrance with praise…’ Here nature and liberty afford us that freely which in England we want, or it Costs us dearly. ‘What pleasure can be more than (being tired with any occasion ashore, in planting vines, fruits, or herbs, in contriving their own grounds, to the pleasure of their own minds their fields, gardens, orchards, buildings, ships, and other works, etc.) to recreate themselves before their own doors, in their own boats upon the sea, where man, woman, and child, with a small hook and line, by angling may take divers sorts of excellent fish at their pleasures?’ If you come and settle in America, you will be remembered in a good way. In America you will have access to things that in England we want, but can’t have unless You have a lot of money, like access to nature and freedom. What could be better than to entertain yourself (after you are finished working for the day) By being in your own house, or in your boat, and fishing with your family.

9. Northern Pilgrims Puritans (Saints/Separatists) -Plymouth, MA (Intended to land in VA) - Eventually become the Massachusetts Bay Colony (Witch Trials) - Arrived in Winter - Religious persecution (not even accepted by Anglican Church) - Close-knit community - Middle-class, well educated, idealistic, religious people - Radical political ideas – Ending in Democracy- Election - Wanted to purify their lives, and the church of corruption

10. Northern Pilgrims Wrote mostly about - Struggles with life and new place - Theology, social/political issues, work ethic - No fiction allowed due to religious beliefs- very little poetry - Journals/Diaries - PLAIN style- Nothing wordy, no frilly words - Very logical/purposeful

11. William Bradford Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts Elected by OTHER pilgrims to be leader Kept that job re-elected until his death Honest, intelligent, good leader Kept a consistent diary of what happened to the colony Includes all the good and the bad (squabbles, greed, etc) Very simple, PLAIN style

12. RELIGIOUS BELIEFS T: Total depravity of man U: Unconditional Election L: Limited Atonement I: Irresistible Grace P: Perseverance of the Saints REMEMBER: TULIP REMEMBER: EW! MUD! E: Education W: Work M: Morality U: Utopia D: Democracy RULES FOR LIFE PURITANS