The colonization of the New World from 1620-1700 brought many historical changes. There was much to say and much was written in this time of establishment. They wrote of opportunity and dreams. New England and Virginia produced many notable writers during the colonization of America, and in the literature of this time we get a glimpse of how these two regions lived their lives and how it affected the themes of their writing. Puritan Separatists, …showed first 75 words of 504 total…

…showed last 75 words of 504 total…moons altogether. Like one of the patriarchs, I have my flock and herds, my bondmen and bondwomen, and every sort of trade amongst my own servants, so that I live in a kind of independence on everyone but Providence". This passage can stand alone as an example of the importance of wealth and propriety in Virginia. The writing in Virginia was aristocratic and secular, focused on the prosperity and leisurely life of the plantation owners.