When and Where does American history begin and why? Use specific evidence from reading: Christina Snyder, “Inequality, War, and Captivity,” in Slavery in Indian Country

When and Where does American history begin and why? Use specific evidence from reading: Christina Snyder, “Inequality, War, and Captivity,” in Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America (Cambridge, Mass., 2010), chapter 1 James Horn, A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America (New York, 2005), 11-22. In American Yawp, “Jamestown” (ch2, Sec. V)