“Good News from New England” by Edward Winslow: A Scholarly Edition (Native Americans of the Northeast)

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First published in 1624, Edward Winslow’s Good News from New England chronicles the early experience of the Plimoth colonists, or Pilgrims, in the New World. For several years Winslow acted as the Pilgrims’ primary negotiator with New England Algonquians, including the Wampanoag, Massachusett, and Narragansett Indians. All over this period he used to be credited with having cured the Wampanoag sachem Massasoit, some of the colonists’ most valuable allies, of an it sounds as if life-threatening illness, and he also served as the Pilgrims’ chief agent in England.

It used to be in the context of all of these roles that Winslow wrote Good News in an attempt to convince supporters in England that the colonists had established friendly relations with Native groups and, consequently, gained get entry to to trade goods. Even if clearly a work of diplomacy, masking as it did incidents of brutal violence against Indians in addition to evidence of mutual mistrust, the work on the other hand offers, according to Kelly Wisecup, a more complicated and nuanced representation of the Pilgrims’ first years in New England and of their relationship with Native Americans than other primary documents of the period.

In this scholarly edition, Wisecup supplements Good News with an introduction, additional primary texts, and annotations to bring to light more than one perspectives, including those of the first European travelers to the area, Native captives who traveled to London and shaped Algonquian responses to colonists, the survivors of epidemics that struck New England between 1616 and 1619, and the witnesses of the colonists’ attack on the Massachusetts.

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