Sweet Land of Liberty, Charles Carleton Coffin
Sweet Land of Liberty, Charles Carleton Coffin
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Sweet Land of Liberty
Old Times in the Colonies

Author: Charles Carleton Coffin

Narrator: Bob Souer

Unabridged: 10 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/23/2019


Synopsis

The settlement of North America was the beginning of a new era in human history.

The oppressive laws, habits and customs of the Old World no longer held such power over those who had made the treacherous journey across the Atlantic. No reigning monarch or dictatorial power ever stepped onto the ground of North America. Yet, despite this, the men and women thirteen colonies of North America were still not free until they threw off the shackles of England's government and asserted their own rights.

The journey between the discovery of America to the eventual liberation of the United States after the Revolutionary War was a long and turbulent one that Charles Carleton Coffin uncovers through the course of his book Sweet Land of Liberty.

This book is a must-listen for anyone interested in the early history of the United States and how ideas of liberty and freedom were developed in the colonies prior to the War of Independence.


About Charles Carleton Coffin

Charles Carleton Coffin was a journalist, American Civil War correspondent, author, and politician. He was one of the most famous newspaper correspondents of the American Civil War and has been called "the Ernie Pyle of his era." His book Sweet Land of Liberty was first published as Old Times in the Colonies in 1880. Coffin passed away in 1896.


Reviews

Goodreads review by DeWayne

A wonderful, detai!ed account of colonial America This account of the first years in America was written in 1880, and it contains some of the prejudices of the day. However, that is more than overcome by inclusion of many details that are not generally included in most histories. The author sets up t......more

Goodreads review by Joe

"Peace! How delightful it was!" Few modern textbooks would end on this double exclamation point sentence. Yet for its time this is a good read. For a history book, it is readable with fine descriptions and the author's enthusiasm drips from the pages. Maybe too much enthusiasm to be read as history.......more

Goodreads review by Wayne

excellent, older narrative. History doesn’t change Coffin tells an excellent and easy to follow narrative from the very early explorers up to 1776. Easy to read, even with typos which have come because the book was digitally scanned from a 19th century copy.......more