| Contents | The William and Mary Quarterly, 64.1

Vol. LXIV, No. 1

January 2007

Staff


Free to Enslave: Politics and the Escalation of Britain's Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1688–1714
William A. Pettigrew	3

After the Mourning Wars: The Iroquois as Allies in Colonial North American Campaigns, 1676–1760
Jon Parmenter	39

Forum: Black Founders


Richard S. Newman and Roy E. Finkenbine, Black Founders in the New Republic: Introduction	83

Roy E. Finkenbine, Belinda's Petition: Reparations for Slavery in Revolutionary Massachusetts	95

Peter P. Hinks, John Marrant and the Meaning of Early Black Freemasonry	105

Richard S. Newman, "We Participate in Common": Richard Allen's Eulogy of Washington and the Challenge of Interracial Appeals	117

Julie Winch, The Making and Meaning of James Forten's Letters from a Man of Colour	129

Stephen G. Hall, A Search for Truth: Jacob Oson and the Beginnings of African American Historiography	139

Manisha Sinha, To "cast just obliquy" on Oppressors: Black Radicalism in the Age of Revolution	149

Richard S. Newman, Roy E. Finkenbine, and Douglass Mooney, Philadelphia Emigrationist Petition, circa 1792: An Introduction	161

Notes and Documents


Letters by African American Sailors, 1799–1814
W. Jeffrey Bolster	167

Reviews of Books

"The Decline and Fall of the Spanish Empire?" a review essay of Kamen, Empire: How Spain Became a World Power, 1492–1763; Thomas, Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan; Elliott, Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492–1830; Silverblatt, Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World; Weber, Bárbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment; Powers, Women in the Crucible of Conquest: The Gendered Genesis of Spanish American Society, 1500–1600; Kellogg, Weaving the Past: A History of Latin America's Indigenous Women from the Prehispanic Period to the Present; Townsend, Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico; and Metcalf, Go-Betweens and the Colonization of Brazil, 1500–1600.
By Matthew Restall	183

Hackel, Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769–1850.
By David J. Silverman	194

Marshall, The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America, c. 1750–1783; and Sarson, British America, 1500–1800: Creating Colonies, Imagining an Empire.
By Ned C. Landsman	199

"Atlantic History Is the New 'New Social History,'" a review essay of Mancke and Shammas, eds., The Creation of the British Atlantic World; Olwell and Tully, eds., Cultures and Identities in Colonial British America; and Gould and Onuf, eds., Empire and Nation: The American Revolution in the Atlantic World.
By Wayne Bodle	203

"Hiding in Plain Sight: Artisans and the Making of Transatlantic Modernity," a review essay of Smith, The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution; and Kamil, Fortress of the Soul: Violence, Metaphysics, and Material Life in the Huguenots' New World, 1517–1751.
By Mark A. Peterson	220

Ekirch, At Day's Close: Night in Times Past.
By Carla Gerona	230

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