Download or read book The Story of Liberty & Old Times in the Colonies (Illustrated Edition) written by Charles Carleton Coffin and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-06-09 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.