Title "Good news from New England" / by Edward Winslow ; edited by Kelly Wisecup

Edition A scholarly edition Published Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2014] ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (x, 182 pages) Series Native Americans of the Northeast Native Americans of the Northeast. Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Edward Winslow, Good News from New England (1624) -- Part II. Related Texts -- Section 1. Captives and Emissaries -- 1. From The Voyages of Giovanni da Verrazzano, 1524-1528 -- 2. From James Rosier, A True Relation of the most prosperous voyage made this present year 1605, by Captain George Waymouth, in the discovery of the land of Virginia (1605) -- 3. From Ferdinando Gorges, "A Description of New England," in America Painted to the Life ... an absolute Narrative of the North parts of America, and of the Discoveries and Plantations of our English in Virginia, New-England, and Barbados (1659) -- 4. From Phenehas Pratt, A Declaration Of The Affairs Of The English People That First Inhabited New England (1662) -- Section 2. Disease and Disorder -- 1. From John Smith, A Description of New England: Or The Observations, And discoveries, of Captain John Smith (Admiral of that Country) in the North of America (1616) -- 2. From Ferdinando Gorges, "A Description or New England" (1659) -- 3. From Ferdinando Gorges, A Brief Narration Or The Original Undertakings Of The Advancement Of Plantations Into the Parts of America (1658) -- 4. From Thomas Dermer, "To his Worshipful Friend M. Samuel Purchas, Preacher of the Word, at the Church a Little within Ludgate, London" (1625) -- 5. From Thomas Morton, New English Canaan or New Canaan, Containing an Abstract of New England, Composed in three Books (1637) -- 6. From Robert Cushman, A Sermon Preached at Plimoth in New England Written in the year 1621 (1622) -- Section 3. Compromise and Conflict -- 1. From William Bradford and Edward Winslow, A Relation Or Journal of the beginning and proceedings of the English Plantation settled at Plimoth in New England, by certain English adventurers both Merchants and others (1622) -- 2. From William Bradford, History of the Plimoth Plantation Containing An Account of the Voyage of the 'Mayflower' Written by William Bradford (1896) -- 3. Edward Winslow, "A Journey to Packanokick, The Habitation of the Great King Massasoyt. As also our Message, the Answer and Entertainment We Had of Him" (1622) -- 4. Edward Winslow, A Letter Sent From New-England to a friend in these parts, setting forth a brief and true Declaration of the worth of that Plantation; As also certain useful Directions for such as intend a Voyage into those Parts" (1622) -- 5. From Phenehas Pratt, A Declaration Of The Affairs Of The English People That First Inhabited New England (1662) -- 6. John Robinson to William Bradford (1623) -- Bibliography -- Index Summary First published in 1624, Edward Winslow's Good News from New England chronicles the early experience of the Plimoth colonists, or Pilgrims, in the New World. For several years Winslow acted as the Pilgrims' primary negotiator with New England Algonquians, including the Wampanoag, Massachusett, and Narragansett Indians. During this period he was credited with having cured the Wampanoag sachem Massasoit, one of the colonists' most valuable allies, of an apparently life-threatening illness, and he also served as the Pilgrims' chief agent in England. 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 primary texts, and annotations to bring to light multiple perspectives, including those of the first European travelers to the area, Native captives who traveled to London and shaped Algonquian responses to colonists, the survivors of epidemics that struck New England between 1616 and 1619, and the witnesses of the colonists' attack on the Massachusetts Notes Originally published: London : Printed by I.D. John Dawson for W. Bladen and J. Bellamie, 1624 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Winslow, Edward, 1595-1655. SUBJECT Winslow, Edward, 1595-1655 fast Subject Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) -- Early works to 1800 Massachuset Indians -- First contact with other peoples. Algonquian Indians -- First contact with other peoples. Wampanoag Indians -- First contact with other peoples. Indigenous peoples -- Foreign relations HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) Wampanoag Indians -- First contact with other peoples Massachuset Indians -- First contact with other peoples Algonquian Indians -- First contact with other peoples Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) SUBJECT Massachusetts -- History -- New Plymouth, 1620-1691. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85081926 Subject Massachusetts Genre/Form Early works History Form Electronic book Author Wisecup, Kelly, 1981- editor. ISBN 9781613763056 1613763050 1625340826 9781625340825 1625340834 9781625340832

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