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In 1699, Cotton Mather authored the first Spanish-language text in the English New World: a religious tract aimed at evangelizing readers across the Spanish Americas. Kirsten Silva Gruesz uses Mather's text to explore complex overlaps of race, ethnicity, and language in the early Americas, which continue to govern Latina/o/x belonging today.
Christian literature, Spanish --- Ethnicity in literature. --- Ethnicity --- Ethnicity --- Evangelistic work --- Literature and race --- History --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- History --- History --- Mather, Cotton, --- Chicana. --- Chicano. --- Chicanx. --- Hispanic American. --- Hispanic. --- Latina. --- Latino. --- Latinx. --- Mexican American. --- Timucua missions. --- colonial studies. --- critical race and ethnic studies. --- early American history. --- early American literature. --- early New England. --- hemispheric studies.
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Abandoning America brings together the biographies of hundreds of people who crossed over to New England in the 1630s but braved the Atlantic again to return home. Some went back quickly, disenchanted or discouraged. Many invested everything to make New England a success, yet after ten or twenty years resolved to leave America behind. They reached their decisions in the context of dramatic events in England - civil war, fresh opportunities in Cromwell's commonwealth - and against a backdrop of personal dilemmas about family ties, health, prospects and profit. The stories of these people are usually overlooked because they are at odds with the onward march of American history. Abandoning America reconstructs, from thousands of fragments of evidence, the story of individual lives: not only magistrates and ministers, merchants and dissidents, but also wives and widows, servants, apprentices, military men, surgeons, shoemakers and shopkeepers. The book traces settlers' lives with an eye to the information historians look for. In a field where primary sources are thin and difficult, Abandoning America is an excellent tool for reference and research. The book is fully annotated and offers a substantial introduction providing for further historical context. SUSAN HARDMAN MOORE is Senior Lecturer, School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh.
New England --- Northeastern States --- History --- England --- Emigration and immigration --- Religion --- Angleterre --- Anglii︠a︡ --- Inghilterra --- Engeland --- Inglaterra --- Anglija --- England and Wales --- HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General. --- American History. --- American colonial history. --- American history. --- Atlantic migration. --- Biography. --- Christianity. --- Church history. --- Civil War. --- Cromwell's Commonwealth. --- Early America. --- Early Modern Religion. --- Early New England. --- England. --- English Revolution. --- Family Ties. --- History of Christianity. --- Immigration. --- New England. --- Oliver Cromwell. --- Personal Dilemmas. --- Puritanism. --- Religion. --- Return.
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