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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Colonial History (search)
iscovery. Gaspar Cortereal See the leading document on the voyage of Cortereal, in a letter from Pietro Pasqualigo, Venetian ambassador in Portugal, written to his brother, October 19, 1501, in Paesi novamente ritrovati et Novo Mondo da Alberico Vesputio Florentino intitulato. L. VI. c. XXV. The original and the French translation are both in the library of Harvard College. was 1500 appointed commander of the enterprise. He reached the shores of North America, ranged the coast for a 1501. distance of six or seven hundred miles, and carefully observed the country and its inhabitants. The most northern point Herrera, d. i. l. VI. c. XVI. Gomara, c. XXXVII. Also in Eden, fol 227. Galvano, in Hakluyt, IV. 419. Purchas, i. 95, 916. Memoir of Cabot, b. II. c. III. and IV. which he attained, was probably about the fiftieth degree. Of the country along which he sailed, he had occasion to admire the brilliant freshness of the verdure, and the density of the stately forest
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 5: (search)
re in sight, not the deliberate application of a just principle. For the commissions for making discoveries, issued a few days June 5 and July 5. before and after her interference to rescue those whom Columbus had enslaved, reserved for herself and Ferdinand a fourth par Esclavos, é negros, é loros que en estos nuestros reinos sean habidos é reputados por esclavos, &c. Navarette, II. 245, and again, 11. 249. of the slaves which the new kingdoms might contain. The slavery of Indians was 1501. recognized as lawful. See a cedula on a slave contract, in Navarette, III. 514, 515, given June 20, 1501. The practice of selling the natives of North America into foreign bondage continued for nearly two centuries; and even the sternest morality pronounced the sentence of slavery and exile on the captives whom the field of battle had spared. The excellent Winthrop enumerates Indians among his bequests. Winthrop's N. E., II. 360. The articles of the early New England confederacy c