4. Topics of colonial American literature: a Their voyage to the new land, adapting themselves to unfamiliar climates and crops dealing with Indians a They wrote in diaries and in journals. They wrote letters and contracts and government charters and religious and political statements. They wrote about the land which stretched before them. All seemed possible through hard-work and faith 2021/2/212021/2/21 11 4. Topics of colonial American literature: ◼ Their voyage to the new land, adapting themselves to unfamiliar climates and crops, dealing with Indians. ◼ They wrote in diaries and in journals. They wrote letters and contracts and government charters and religious and political statements. They wrote about the land which stretched before them. All seemed possible through hard-work and faith