We Shall Remain film; NAA: Las Casas, Franklin ― "Rules by Which a Great Empire…," Mather ― "A People of God in the Devil's Territories," Cherokee Women ― "To Governor Benjamin Franklin"; Online: Omar Ibn Said Faith, hope, and freedom are central to any discussion about 18th and Antebellum USA. There is a lot that can be said about the religiosity of early settlers, and the way Africans and First Nations people were treated, it can also call to question the hypocrisy of their religiosity (well, David Walker does exactly that in The Appeal). These texts are interconnected, and I encourage you to unpack those linkages. What are the connections you see?