So Dreadfull a Judgment: Puritan Responses to King Philip’s War, 1676–1677

For the newly established New England colonies, the war with the Indians of 1675–77 was a catastrophe that pushed the settlements perilously close to worldly ruin. Moreover, it seemed to call into question the religious mission and spiritual status of a group that considered itself a Chosen People, carrying out a divinely inspired "errand into the wilderness." Seven texts reprinted here reveal efforts of Puritan writers to make sense of King Philip’s War. Largely unavailable since the 19th century, they represent the various divisions of Puritan society and literary forms typical of Puritan writing, from which emerged some of the most vital genres of American popular writing. Thoroughly annotated, the book contains a general introduction and introductions to each text.

• The Life of Olaudah Equiano (Dover Thrift Editions)
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Dover Thrift Editions)
• Subjects unto the Same King: Indians, English, and the Contest for Authority in Colonial New England (Early American Studies)
• The Pueblo Revolt of 1680: Conquest and Resistance in Seventeenth-Century New Mexico
• Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts (Penguin Classics)
• A Princess of Mars
• More Than Human
• Key into the Language of America
• Houseboy