Our first century . INTRODUCTION IT is the purpose of this book to present, on the basisof a connected narrative, a picture of life in Americaduring the seventeenth century. The text-books used in the schools must cover theentire history of our country within a very brief must, therefore, confine themselves to a brief recitalof facts, chiefly political and military. The larger his-tories, in which life, manners, customs and the conditionsgoverning them are treated with admirable scholarship,must of necessity be too voluminous and too costly to beavailable for the use of busy readers
Our first century . INTRODUCTION IT is the purpose of this book to present, on the basisof a connected narrative, a picture of life in Americaduring the seventeenth century. The text-books used in the schools must cover theentire history of our country within a very brief must, therefore, confine themselves to a brief recitalof facts, chiefly political and military. The larger his-tories, in which life, manners, customs and the conditionsgoverning them are treated with admirable scholarship,must of necessity be too voluminous and too costly to beavailable for the use of busy readers. In the present work the author seeks to give a popularaccount of the life, manners and customs of those whofirst planted English colonies along the Atlantic coast,and laid the foundations of our country. The mannerof men they were, the ideas they brought with themacross the sea, the mistakes they made in entering upona new life, under strange conditions, the means theyadopted of adjusting themselves to their new e
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