Strangers to Us All Lawyers and Poetry

 

John Saffin

(1626-1710)
Massachusetts & Rhode Island

Samuel Sewall Speaks Out

The Selling of Joseph: Africans in America

Proslavery: A History of The Defense of Slavery In America

Samuel Sewall

Writings

John Saffin, John Saffin, His Book (1665-1708): A Collection of Various Matters of Divinity, Law, & State Affairs Epitomiz'd Both in Verse and Prose (New York: Printed at the Harbor Press, 1928) (Caroline Hazard intro.)

Bibliography

Alyce Enid Sands, John Saffin: Seventeenth-Century American Citizen and Poet (Thesis, Pennsylvania State University, 1965)

Bibliography: Articles

Jessie A. Coffee, Arcadia to America: Sir Philip Sidney and John Saffin, 45 (1) American Literature 100-104 (1973).

Alyce E. Sands, Establishing John Saffin's Birthdate: A Biographical and Historical Problem, 2 Early American Literature 12-17 (Spring, 1967)

Lawrence W. Toner, The Sewall-Saffin Dialogue on Slavery, 21 (1) William and Mary Quarterly 40 (1964)

Albert J. Von Frank, John Saffin: Slavery and Racism in Colonial Massachusetts, 29 (3) Early American Literature 254 (Winter 1994)

Brom Weber, A Puritan Poem Regenerated: John Saffin's "Sayle Gentle Pinnace," 3 Early American Literature 65-71 (Fall, 1968)

Research Resources

Robert James Daly, God's Altar: A Study of Puritan Poetry (Ph.D. dissertation, Cornell University, 1972)