Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Freedom Bound
- Prologue Beginning
- Part I Manning, Planting, Keeping
- 1 Manning
- 2 Planting
- 3 Keeping (i)
- 4 Keeping (ii)
- Part II Poly-Olbion; or The Inside Narrative
- Part III “What, then, is the American, this new man?”
- Appendices to Chapter 1
- Index
- References
3 - Keeping (i)
Discourses of Intrusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Freedom Bound
- Prologue Beginning
- Part I Manning, Planting, Keeping
- 1 Manning
- 2 Planting
- 3 Keeping (i)
- 4 Keeping (ii)
- Part II Poly-Olbion; or The Inside Narrative
- Part III “What, then, is the American, this new man?”
- Appendices to Chapter 1
- Index
- References
Summary
As the light accompanieth the Sunne and the heate the fire, so lasting riches do wait upon them that are jealous for the advancement of the Kingdom of Christ, and the enlargement of his glorious Gospell.
Richard Hakluyt (the younger), Preface to Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America (1582)The Sun arises in the East,
Cloth’d in robes of blood and gold;
Swords and spears and wrath increas’d
All around his bosom roll’d,
Crown’d with warlike fires and raging desires.
William Blake, Poems from the Rossetti Manuscript, I (c. 1793)
European colonizers began refining their plans for the New World virtually from the moment of Columbian landfall. Conventionally the English are absent from this story, latecomers by better than ninety years. English Atlantic voyaging goes largely unnoticed before the 1580s, when “the horizons of English leaders, merchants, intellectuals, and adventurers began to broaden” and attempts to create mainland outposts commenced in earnest. Continuous landed settlement dates only from 1607; English presence is not secured for the better part of two decades.
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- Freedom BoundLaw, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865, pp. 93 - 132Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010