Colonial America


Caleb's Crossing
The Scarlet Letter
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (The Physick Book, #1)
Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
The Heretic's Daughter
American Colonies: The Settling of North America
The Witches: Salem, 1692
1776
Fever 1793
A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander, #6)
The Fiery Cross (Outlander, #5)
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)
The Wolves of Andover
Nancy Rubin Stuart
Within a day Mercy heard the news. She never forgot it. A few months later, that riot became the backdrop for her first political satire.
Nancy Rubin Stuart, The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation

It is difficult to picture the rich, hard-nosed advisors of James I being overly concerned about the rights of vagabonds and felons. But this was a period that was especially suspicious of arbitrary acts by the Crown against individuals. There was no law enabling the crown to exile anyone, including the baser convict, into forced labour. According to legal scholars, the Magna Carta itself protected even them. The Privy Councillors therefore dressed up what was to befall the convicts and presente ...more
Don Jordan, White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain’s White Slaves in America

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