Good News from New England" by Edward Winslow: A Scholarly Edition - Native Americans of the Northeast (Paperback)Kelly Wisecup (author)
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It was in the context of all of these roles that Winslow wrote Good News in an attempt to convince supporters in England that the colonists had established friendly relations with Native groups and, as a result, gained access to trade goods. Although clearly a work of diplomacy, masking as it did incidents of brutal violence against Indians as well as evidence of mutual mistrust, the work nevertheless offers, according to Kelly Wisecup, a more complicated and nuanced representation of the Pilgrims' first years in New England and of their relationship with Native Americans than other primary documents of the period.
In this scholarly edition, Wisecup supplements Good News with an introduction, additional prinary texts, and annotations to bring to light multiple perspectives, including those of the first European travellers to the area, Native captives who travelled to London and shaped Algonquian responses to colonists, the survivors of epidemics that struck New England between 1616 and 1619, and the witness of the colonists' attack on the Massachusetts.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Number of pages: 200
Weight: 304 g
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 14 mm
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