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Illustrations I.1 Native territories and English colonial claims in southern New England, ca. 1665 2 I.2 The puritan Atlantic in the long seventeenth century 4 1.1 Taínoan provinces and cacicazgos on Hispaniola 30 1.2 Sir George Somers’s manuscript map of Bermuda, ca. 1609 32 1.3 Manioc processing, 1724 37 1.4 Bread making, 1565 38 1.5 Directions for making bread from cassava roots, 1621 40 1.6 Taínoan palm-thatched house 43 1.7 Palm fabric, 1670s 46 2.1 Map of selected Native and English places in seventeenth-century New England 52 2.2 String of seventeenth-century wampum beads 63 2.3 Seventeenth-century potsherds with representations of female genitalia 66 2.4 Zoomorphic effigy pestle in the form of a bear, Rhode Island 67 3.1 Baptist celebration of the Lord’s Supper, 1736 80 3.2 St. George’s Chalice 81 3.3 John Hull beaker, ca. 1659, First Church, Boston 82 x / illustrations 3.4 Roger Wood beaker, ca. 1654, Devonshire Church, Bermuda 83 3.5 Fireplace, Cooper-Frost-Austin House, Cambridge, Mass. 88 5.1 Female Quaker preaching, 1736 132 7.1 Praying Indian towns, ca. 1675 172 10.1 Incontinency proceedings in Bermuda, 1667 238 10.2 Unlawful sex cases in Bermuda, 1650–1723 240 10.3 Gender differential in white bastardy cases in Bermuda, 1690–1723 241 10.4 Unlawful sex in Bermuda by type of offense, 1650–1723 242 10.5 Racial labels of Bermudian women charged with unlawful sex, 1650–1723 243 10.6 Cases charging Bermudian women with unlawful sex by decade, 1650–1723 244 11.1 Interracial sex cases in Bermuda, 1650–1723 252 11.2 “An Act for the Better Preventing of Spurious and Mixt Issue,” 1705, Massachusetts 262 ...

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