Becoming America - An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution, 2018a

3.8 Thomas Paine 440
3.8.1 Common Sense 441
3.8.2 Reading and Review Questions 479
3.9.1 From Notes on the State of Virginia 481
3.9.2 Autobiography of Thomas Jeerson 501
3.9.3 Reading and Review Questions 513
3.10 The Federalist 514
3.10.1 Federalist #1 515
3.10.2 Federalist #10 518
3.10.3 Reading and Review Questions 524
3.11 Olaudah Equiano 524
3.11.1 From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano:
Or, Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself 525
3.11.2 Reading and Review Questions 556
3.12 Judith Sargent Murray 557
3.12.1 “On the Equality of the Sexes” 558
3.12.2 Reading and Review Questions 566
3.13 Philip Freneau 566
3.13.1 To Sir Toby 568
3.13.2 “The Indian Burying Ground” 569
3.13.3 “On Mr. Paine’s Rights of Man” 571
3.13.4 “A Political Litany” 572
3.13.5 Reading and Review Questions 573
3.14 Phillis Wheatley 574
3.14.1 “On Being Brought from Africa to America” 575
3.14.2 “To the Right onorable illiam, Earl of Dartmouth” 575
3.14.3 “On the Death of Rev. Mr. George hiteeld. 1770” 576
3.14.4 “To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing his orks” 578
3.14.5 “Letter to Rev. Samson Occom” 579
3.14.6 Reading and Review Questions 579
3.15 Royall Tyler 580
3.15.1 The Contrast 580
3.15.2 Reading and Review Questions 645
3.16 Hannah Webster Foster 645
3.16.1 From The Coquette: Or; the History of Eliza Wharton 646
3.16.2 Reading and Review Questions 670
3.17 Tecumseh 670
3.17.1 Speech to the Osages 671
3.17.2 Reading and Review Questions 671
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