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American Portraits: The Salem Witch Trials
Cotton Mather, The Wonders of the Invisible World, being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, and of Several Remarkable Curiousities therein Occurring, 1693.
Artist unknown, Cotton Mather, c. 1700.
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HIST 180 Survey of American History
Cotton Mather, The Wonders of the Invisible World, being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, and of Several Remarkable Curiousities therein Occurring, 1693.
Artist unknown, Cotton Mather, c. 1700.
Benjamin Cawthra, Ph.D.
California State University, Fullerton
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The Struggle for Colonial Empire
Timeline: Colonial Empire
The Colonial Economy: Immigration and Labor
Ideas: Varieties of British Freedom
The Culture of Enslaved African Americans
Struggle for Empire: France and Britain
Benjamin West and History Painting
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1. Timeline: Later Colonial Period
1686 Dominion of New England
1688 Glorious Revolution in England (James II out, William and Mary in)
1691 Massachusetts receives new charter
1692 Salem Witchcraft Trials
1697 Slave importations increase; racial laws tightened
1719 Rebellion against proprietors in Carolina, leading to two colonies
1734 The Great Awakening begins
1745 New England troops help take fortress of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island
1754 Albany Congress and Plan of Union
1754-63 French and Indian War (colonial phase of European war)
1759 Quebec falls to British army.
1760 George III becomes king of England
1763 Treaty of Paris ends French Empire in North America.
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2. The Colonial Economy: Immigration and Labor
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Major Labor Types:
- Free
- Indentured Servitude
- Enslaved
3. Varieties of British Freedom and Liberty
Freedom:
a. Spiritual
b. Not slave
Liberty:
Political
Civil
Personal
Religious
British political pamphlet, 1718.
4. The Culture of Enslaved African Americans
New York City slave market, East River
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The Old Plantation, artist unknown, ca. 1790-1800
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New York runaway advertisement, 1778.
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New York slave sale advertisement, 1789.
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5. Struggle for Empire: France and Britain
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Major Colonial Wars
King William’s War, 1689-97
Queen Anne’s War, 1701-1713
King George’s War, 1744-1748
Seven Years’ (French and Indian) War, 1756-1763
View of the Landing of New England Forces in the Expedition against Cape Breton, 1745. Drawing, 1746.
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George Washington, Ohio River region containing notes on French activities, 1753 or 1754.
Map. Library of Congress.
Charles Willson Peale, George Washington, 1772.
Oil on canvas. Washington and Lee University.
A Plan of Albany as It Was in 1758.
Map. Library of Congress.
Benjamin West, The Death of General Wolfe, 1770.
Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
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6. Benjamin West and History Painting
Benjamin West, Self-portrait, c. 1763.
Benjamin West, Death of General Wolfe, 1770.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
Anthony Van Dyck, Lamentation over the Dead Christ.
Oil on canvas.
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Benjamin West, Penn’s Treaty with the Indians When He Founded the Province of Pennsylvania in North America, 1771-72.
Oil on canvas.
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Apollo Belvedere, c. 120-140.
Marble. Vatican Museums.
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Benjamin West, Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus, 1768.
Oil on canvas. Yale University Art Gallery.
Procession, portion of the frieze of the Ara Pacis Augustae, Rome, 13-9 BC. Marble.
Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784.
Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris.
(l.) Benjamin West, Portrait of Mrs. West with her son Raphael, c. 1770. Utah Museum of Fine Arts
(r.) Raphael, Madonna della Sedia, 1512-14. Palazzo Pitti, Florence.
Benjamin West, American Commissioners of the Preliminary Peace Agreement with Great Britain (unfinished), 1783-84.
Oil sketch. Winterthur Museum, Delaware.
