Debating the issues in colonial newspapers : primary documents on events of the period / / David A. Copeland

• Autore: Copeland David A. <1951->
• Pubblicazione: Westport, Conn. : , : Greenwood Press, , 2000; London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (415 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.2
• Soggetto topico: Public opinion - United States - History - 17th century; Public opinion - United States - History - 18th century; American newspapers
• Soggetto geografico: United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Sources; United States Politics and government To 1775 Sources; United States Politics and government To 1775 Public opinion
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-389) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Newspapers in Colonial America -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 1 Censorship, Printing Control, and Freedom of the Press, 1690 -- IN FAVOR OF CENSORSHIP AND PRESS LIMITATIONS -- WILLIAM BERKELEY: "ENQUIRIES TO THE GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA" -- THE GOVERNOR'S COUNCIL OF MASSACHUSETTS: "THE SUPPRESSION OF PUBLICK OCCURRENCES" -- AN ANONYMOUS NEW YORKER: "THE DANGERS OF PAPERS AND PAMPHLETS" -- AN ANONYMOUS BOSTONIAN: "CONDEMNATION OF THE PARTY PRESS" -- FRANCIS HOPKINSON: "WHEN GOVERNMENT CAN SUPPRESS THE PRESS" -- DEFENDING FREEDOM OF THE PRESS -- ANDREW HAMILTON: "A PRINCIPAL PILLAR OF A FREE GOVERNMENT" -- W. K.: "OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH" -- AN ANONYMOUS LONDON WRITER: "AN APOLOGY FOR THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS" -- FREEBORN AMERICAN: "THE NATURE OF POLITICAL LIBERTY" -- ROBERT FOWLE: "A SACRED RIGHT" -- QUESTIONS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 2 The Inoculation Controversy, 1721 -- ANTI-INOCULATION -- WILLIAM DOUGLASS: "THE HISTORY OF INOCULATION" -- WILLIAM DOUGLASS: "THIS IS A DESPERATE REMEDY" -- ABSINTHIUM: "WHY YOU SHOULD NOT INOCULATE" -- PRO-INOCULATION -- COTTON MATHER: "IN DEFENSE OF DR. ZABDIEL BOYLSTON" -- AN ANONYMOUS BOSTONIAN: "AN ACCOUNT OF THE SUCCESSES OF SMALLPOX INOCULATION" -- CHAMBERS'S DICTIONARY: "AN ACCOUNT OF INOCULATION" -- QUESTIONS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 3 Impartiality, Objectivity, and the Press, 1729 -- IN FAVOR OF A PARTIAL AND BIASED PRESS -- THO. PENSHALLOW: "PROHIBITION OF THE COURANT " -- AN ANONYMOUS BOSTONIAN: "THE MOST AUDACIOUS AND BRAZEN-FAC'D LIARS IN THE WORLD" -- ASSEMBLY OF MASSACHUSETTS: "THE SUPPRESSION OF JAMES FRANKLIN" -- WILLIAM BRADFORD: "NO MORE CONTROVERSIAL ARTICLES" -- THOMAS FLEET: "THE TRUTH WILL BE PUBLISHED" -- WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, WITH WILLIAM SMITH JR., AND JOHN MORIN SCOTT: "OF THE USE, ABUSE, AND LIBERTY OF THE PRESS" -- CLEMENTINA RIND: "I WILL NOT PUBLISH ANONYMOUS PIECES". ; IN FAVOR OF AN IMPARTIAL AND OBJECTIVE PRESS -- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: "THE BUSY-BODY, NO. 8" -- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: "APOLOGY FOR PRINTERS" -- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: "TRUTH WILL PREVAIL OVER FALSEHOOD" -- GAMALIEL ROGERS AND DANIEL FOWLE: "PROSPECTUS OF THE INDEPENDENT ADVERTISER" -- WILLIAM LIVINGSTON: "THE DESIGN OF THE INDEPENDENT REFLECTOR" -- DANIEL FOWLE: "REMARKS ON THE ADVANTAGES OF PRINTING" -- AN ATTENTIVE OBSERVER: "PAPERS SHOULD BE OPEN TO ALL PARTIES" -- JAMES RIVINGTON: "A PRINTER SHOULD BE IMPARTIAL" -- THOMAS AND JOHN FLEET: "WE WILL NOT PROSTITUTE OUR PAPER" -- QUESTIONS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 4 Attakulakula Visits King George II, 1730: Native American-English Relations -- POSITIVE NATIVE AMERICAN-COLONIAL RELATIONS -- OFFICIAL REPORT: "THE SIX NATIONS ALLY WITH ENGLAND" -- AN ANONYMOUS SOUTH CAROLINA WRITER: "THE SPEECH OF CHULOCHCULLAH" -- AN ANONYMOUS GEORGIAN: "KILLING BEAVER IN CHEROKEE TERRITORY" -- GOVERNOR WILLIAM BULL: "AN ACT FOR THE PRESERVATION OF DEER" -- GOVERNOR FRANCIS FAUQUIER: "SETTLERS WANTED IN THE MURDER OF CHEROKEES" -- THE ANDERSCOGGIN NATION: "DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "NO INDIANS FOR ENGLAND" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "SIX NATIONS TO REMAIN NEUTRAL" -- NEGATIVE NATIVE AMERICAN-COLONIAL RELATIONS -- CAPE SABLE INDIANS: "SHOW ME WHERE I CAN GO" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "THE INDIANS MUST BE OUR ALLIES" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "THE 'GRAND' INDIAN CONGRESS" -- GOVERNOR WILLIAM SHIRLEY: "DECLARATION OF WAR ON NATIVE AMERICANS" -- GOVERNOR WILLIAM SHIRLEY: "A BOUNTY ON PENOBSCOT SCALPS" -- GOVERNOR WILLIAM SHIRLEY: "WE TAKE POSSESSION OF PENOBSCOT LAND" -- QUESTIONS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 5 The Trial of John Peter Zenger, 1735 -- ANTI-COSBY FACTION -- CATO: "THE IMPORTANCE OF LIBERTY OF THE PRESS" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "THE LE CÆSAR AFFAIR" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW". ; CATO: "INSTRUMENTS OF PUBLIC RUIN" -- PRO-COSBY FACTION -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "COSBY THE GREAT" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "ABUSING CATO" -- QUESTIONS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 6 Women's Rights, 1738 -- IN FAVOR OF INDEPENDENCE AND EQUALITY FOR WOMEN -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "SPECIES, NOT SEX" -- A LADY: "WOMEN IN BUSINESS: BETTER THAN MEN?" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "THO' HUSBANDS ARE TYRANTS, THEIR WIVES WILL BE FREE" -- JOHN CARTER: "TRIBUTE TO SARAH GODDARD" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "THE STORY OF HANNAH SNELL" -- WOMEN SHOULD BE LIMITED TO DOMESTICITY AND SERVICE -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "MAXIMS FOR PROMOTING MATRIMONIAL HAPPINESS" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "THE LIKELIEST WAY TO OBTAIN A GOOD HUSBAND" -- OBITUARY: "MRS. REBECCAH FISK" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER WITH AN EDITORIAL NOTE BY THOMAS FLEET: "AN OBLIGING WIFE" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "A POOR AND UNHAPPY RASCAL" -- QUESTIONS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 7 The Stono Rebellion, 1739 -- ADVOCATING HARSH TREATMENT OF SLAVES -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "A NEW YORK SLAVE REVOLT" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "AN AVERTED UPRISING" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "WEST INDIAN SLAVE REVOLT" -- GOVERNOR JAMES DE LANCEY: "SLAVE ANTI-ASSEMBLY BILL" -- MASSACHUSETTS ASSEMBLY: "THE RIGHT TO DESTROY SLAVES" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "DISORDERS COMMITTED BY NEGROES" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "MURDER ON LONG ISLAND" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "ARSENIC AND CHOCOLATE" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "THE MURDER OF JOHN CEDMAN" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "MURDER IN THE WOODS" -- ADVOCATING EQUAL TREATMENT FOR SLAVES -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "SLAVES ACQUITTED" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "CHARGED WITH SLAVE MURDER" -- A FREE AMERICAN: "A SERMON ON THE CAUSE OF THE AFRICAN SLAVES" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "PUNISH THE MASTER" -- THE POET'S CORNER: "TAKEN FROM THE LYBIAN SHORES" -- QUESTIONS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 8 The Great Awakening and George Whitefield, 1739-1745. ; ANTI-WHITEFIELD AND REVIVALISM -- AN UNKNOWN LONDON WRITER: "SILENCING WHITEFIELD" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "ENTHUSIASTICK RAVINGS" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "THE DANGERS OF WHITEFIELD'S PREACHING" -- THOMAS FLEET: "THE CHECKLEY MEETING-HOUSE ACCIDENT" -- NATH. BELLS AND RUSTICUS: "NOT UNDER GOD" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "WHITEFIELD, GET YOU GONE" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "AN ATTACK ON ITINERANTS" -- PRO-WHITEFIELD AND REVIVALISM -- JUVENTUS: "COMMISSIONED FROM ON HIGH" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "AGAINST BALLS AND PUBLIC DANCING" -- WILLIAM SEWARD: "THOUSANDS ATTEND WHITEFIELD SERMONS" -- WILLIAM SEWARD: "THE FAREWELL SERMON" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "GROWING PIETY AND DEVOTION" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "A RESPONSE TO MR. FLEET" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "THE FUNERAL OF GEORGE WHITEFIELD" -- QUESTIONS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 9 Religious Divisions, 1740-1745 -- FOR RELIGIOUS UNION AND AGAINST NEW RELIGIOUS SECTS -- P.N.C.: "A PROPOSAL FOR A UNION OF DENOMINATIONS" -- TWO ANONYMOUS WRITERS: "AN INSTRUMENT OF DIVISIONS" -- NATHANAEL HENCHMAN: "SEEDS OF SEPARATION" -- THOMAS PRINCE: "A CALL FOR A MEETING" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "METHODISTS AND THE SCARLET WHORE" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "A PLOT AGAINST SOUTH CAROLINA" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "AN ATTACK ON METHODISTS" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "DR. WHIMWHAM" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "LOST WITS" -- IN SUPPORT OF DENOMINATIONS AND RELIGIOUS SECTS -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "ONE COMMUNION NOT ADAPTED TO HUMAN NATURE" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "THE RIGHT TO INTERPRET SCRIPTURE" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "AN ATTACK ON THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "THE CHARACTER OF METHODISTS" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "THE ALTERATION OF THE FACE OF RELIGION" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "OF MANY PERSUASIONS BUT STILL IN UNITY" -- QUESTIONS -- CHAPTER 10 Massachusetts Legalizes Lotteries, 1744 -- PRO-LOTTERY. ; AN OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: "A LOTTERY FOR THE ACADEMY OF PHILADELPHIA" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE FOR NEW JERSEY LOTTERY" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "MONEY FOR NOVA SCOTIA" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "A LOTTERY TO REDUCE THE NATIONAL DEBT" -- ANTI-LOTTERY -- THOMAS FLEET: "THE MOST EXTENSIVELY MISCHIEVOUS SORT OF A GAME" -- AN ANONYMOUS FATHER: "BEWITCHING DICE" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "THE UNPROFITABLE FRATERNITY OF GAMESTERS" -- PUBLIC NOTICE: "AN ORDER TO DISCONTINUE GAMING" -- QUESTIONS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 11 Medical Discoveries and the Amazing "Chinese Stones," 1745 -- MEDICAL QUACKERY -- ANONYMOUS REPORTS: "THE AMAZING CHINESE STONES" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "THE BLIND OCCULIST" -- BISHOP GEORGE BERKELEY: "TREATISE ON TAR WATER" -- REFUTING MEDICAL QUACKERY/PROMOTING MEDICAL DISCOVERIES -- ACIDUS: "A REFUTATION OF CHINESE STONES" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "SUCCESSFUL CATARACT REMOVAL" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "THE DANGERS OF SNUFF" -- DR. BENJAMIN RUSH: "OBSERVATIONS ON THE CAUSE AND CURE OF THE HIVES" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "SUCCESSFUL SURGERY FOR STONES" -- QUESTIONS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 12 Paper Money and the Currency Act, 1751 -- OPPOSING PAPER MONEY -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "AGAINST PAPER MONEY" -- WILLIAM LIVINGSTON: "THE PROBLEM WITH BILLS OF CREDIT" -- A VIRGINIAN: "THE MANIFOLD EVILS OF PAPER MONEY" -- IN FAVOR OF PAPER MONEY -- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: "THE BUSY-BODY, NO. 8" -- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: "FIXING VALUE TO PAPER MONEY" -- MASSACHUSETTS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: "REACTION TO A VETO OF BILLS OF CREDIT" -- RO. C. NICHOLAS: "REPLY TO A VIRGINIAN ON THE SUBJECT OF PAPER MONEY" -- QUESTIONS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 13 The New York Public Education Controversy, 1753-1755 -- AGAINST ESTABLISHING A CHURCH-AFFILIATED COLLEGE -- WILLIAM LIVINGSTON: "THE PROPOSED COLLEGE FOR NEW YORK". ; WILLIAM LIVINGSTON: "WHY MUST A COLLEGE BE AFFILIATED WITH A RELIGIOUS GROUP?".
• Sommario/riassunto: For every major event or issue of the colonial period, newspapers printed the opinions of the day, in many cases attempting to influence public opinion. Issues such as medical discoveries, education, and censorship are covered in this collection along with important events such as the French and Indian War, the trial of John Peter Zenger, and the Boston Massacre. Each chapter introduces the event or issue and includes news articles, letters, essays, even poetry representing both sides of the argument as they affected Americans. Each document is preceded by an explanatory introduction. This is the only collection of primary source documents from colonial newspapers on the events of the era and will be a valuable tool for research and classroom discussion.
• Titolo autorizzato: Debating the issues in colonial newspapers
• ISBN: 9798400638411; 9786610708369; 9781280708367; 1280708360; 9780313007262; 0313007268
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910962134903321
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