The Story of Liberty & Old Times in the Colonies (Illustrated Edition)
By Charles Carleton Coffin
Length22h 52m
About this audiobook
This "Story of Liberty" is a true narrative. It covers a period of five hundred years fight for liberty, from the Magna Carta (1215) up to the landing of the Pilgrims in Massachusetts (1620).
"Old Times in the Colonies" is an outline of some of the principal events that transpired during the colonial period of our country, and portrays the hardships and sufferings of those who laid the foundations of a new empire. It will show how the Old World laws, habits, and customs were gradually changed; how the grand ideas of Freedom and the Rights of Man took root and flourished. It covers the period from the discovery and settlement of America to the Revolutionary War.
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GenreHistory
Length22 hrs 52 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 9, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Story of Liberty & Old Times in the Colonies (Illustrated Edition)
2INTRODUCTION
3CHAPTER I JOHN LACKLAND AND THE BARONS
4CHAPTER II THE MAN WHO PREACHED AFTER HE WAS DEAD
5CHAPTER III THE FIRE THAT WAS KINDLED IN BOHEMIA
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6CHAPTER IV WHAT LAURENCE COSTER AND JOHN GUTTENBERG DID FOR LIBERTY
7CHAPTER V THE MEN WHO ASK QUESTIONS
8CHAPTER VI HOW A MAN TRIED TO REACH THE EAST BY SAILING WEST
9CHAPTER VII THE NEW HOME OF LIBERTY
10CHAPTER VIII A BOY WHO OBJECTED TO MARRYING HIS BROTHER'S WIDOW
11CHAPTER IX THE MAN WHO CAN DO NO WRONG
12CHAPTER X THE BOY WHO SUNG FOR HIS BREAKFAST
13CHAPTER XI WHAT THE BOY WHO SUNG FOR HIS BREAKFAST SAW IN ROME
14CHAPTER XII THE BOY-CARDINAL
15CHAPTER XIII THE BOY-EMPEROR
16CHAPTER XIV THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD
17CHAPTER XV THE MEN WHO OBEY ORDERS
18CHAPTER XVI PLANS THAT DID NOT COME TO PASS
19CHAPTER XVII THE MAN WHO SPLIT THE CHURCH IN TWAIN
20CHAPTER XVIII THE QUEEN WHO BURNED HERETICS
21CHAPTER XIX HOW LIBERTY BEGAN IN FRANCE
22CHAPTER XX THE MAN WHO FILLED THE WORLD WITH WOE
23CHAPTER XXI PROGRESS OF LIBERTY IN ENGLAND
24CHAPTER XXII HOW THE POPE PUT DOWN THE HERETICS
25CHAPTER XXIII THE QUEEN OF THE SCOTS
26CHAPTER XXIV ST. BARTHOLOMEW
27CHAPTER XXV HOW THE "BEGGARS" FOUGHT FOR THEIR RIGHTS
28CHAPTER XXVI WHY THE QUEEN OF SCOTLAND LOST HER HEAD
29CHAPTER XXVII THE RETRIBUTION THAT FOLLOWED CRIME
30CHAPTER XXVIII WILLIAM BREWSTER AND HIS FRIENDS
31CHAPTER XXIX THE STAR OF EMPIRE
32CHAPTER XXX THE "HALF-MOON"
33CHAPTER XXXI STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS
34Preface
35Chapter I Discovery of San Salvador
36Chapter II Forces of Civilization
37Chapter III First Settlements
38Chapter IV The Wise Fool of England and His Times
39Chapter V The Beginning of Two Civilizations
40Chapter VI How Beaver-skins and Tobacco Helped on Civilization
41Chapter VII The Pilgrims
42Chapter VIII First Years at Plymouth
43Chapter IX Settlement of New Hampshire, New York, and Canada
44Chapter X The Puritan Beginning
45Chapter XI The Puritans Take Possession of New England
46Chapter XII Rhode Island and New Hampshire
47Chapter XIII Affairs at Manhattan
48Chapter XIV The Struggle for Liberty in England, and Hot It Affected America
49Chapter XV The Quakers
50Chapter XVI The End of Dutch Rule in America
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