the new england qvarterly

A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters

September 2016

Articles“Fear of Popish Leagues”: Religious Identities and the Conduct of Frontier Diplomacy in Mid-17th-Century Northeastern America Lauric Henneton 356

“The Attachment of the People”: The Massachusetts Charter, the French and Indian War, and the Coming of the American Revolution James F. Hrdlicka 384

Thou Uncracked Keel: The Many Voyages of the Whaleship Charles W. Morgan and the Presence of the American Maritime Past Jason W. Smith 421

Pretty, Sassy, Cool: Slave Resistance, Agency, and Culture in Eighteenth-Century New England Antonio T. Bly 457

Memoranda and Documents“I liked the town no better at our second interview”: A New Emerson Letter from Charleston in 1827 Joel Myerson, Michael C. Weisenburg 493 Book ReviewsThe Papers of Francis Bernard: Governor of Massachusetts, 1760-69, vol. 5: 1768-1769, edited by Colin Nicolson Shannon E. Duffy 505 Addressing America: George Washington's Farewell and the Making of National Culture, Politics, and Diplomacy, 1796-1852, by Jeffrey J. Malanson Robert W. Smith 508

Siblings: Brothers and Sisters in American History, by C. Dallett Hemphill Barry Levy 510

Privateering: Patriots and Profits in the War of 1812, by Faye M. Kert Richard Brabander 513

American Unitarianism and the Protestant Dilemma: The Conundrum of Biblical Authority, by Lydia Willsky-Ciollo J. D. Bowers 515 Christian Imperialism: Converting the World in the Early American Republic, by Emily Conroy-Krutz Roberta Wollons 517

Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau, by Branka Arsić Prentiss Clark 520

Slavish Shore: The Odyssey of Richard Henry Dana Jr., by Jeffrey L. Amestoy Rick Kennedy 523

Disaster Citizenship: Survivors, Solidarity, and Power in the Progressive Era, by Jacob A. C. Remes David Huyssen 526