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Fall 09 office hours (219 Flint): M & F 10:30-11:30 and by appt (harlandj@ufl.edu)

Possible topics [a partial list gathered from the first half of Pestana]

earliest Protestant colonies (Swedish and Dutch) [Pestana, 67]

John Rolfe/ Pocohantas [Pestana, 70]

post 1649 diversity [Pestana,81]

early Quakerism [Pestana, 83-84]

Corporation for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England [Pestana, 69]

persecution of Quakers in MA/ position of Ch II [Pestana, 118]

West Jersey as a Quaker enterprise [Pestana, 120]

witchcraft/ witchhunting [Pestana, 88]

anti-Catholicism: civil war in MD [Pestana, 88]

English uses of de las Casas [Pestana, 89]

policies toward Jews

missions to Native Americans [Pestana 92-93]

blending of religious beliefs and practices [Pestana, 94-95, 97]

Obeah [Pestana, 97]

the Praying Indian Villages [Pestana, 106]

the Rogerenes [Pestana, 107]. . . (other sects)

religious diversity of early NY [Pestana, 108]

toleration/ freedom of conscience [Pestana, 124]

Charles II [Pestana, 112]

attitudes toward the Resoration in a particular colony [Pestana, 125]

individual colonies:
MD
RI
Bermuda. . .