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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Preface to the first edition (search)
rust was not excited, have almost acquired a prescriptive right to a place in the annals of America. This state of things has increased the difficulty of my undertaking, and, I believe, also, its utility; and I cannot regret the labor which has enabled me to present, under a somewhat new aspect, the early love of liberty in Virginia; the causes and nature of its loyalty; its commercial freedom; the colonial policy of Cromwell; the independent spirit of Maryland; the early institutions of Rhode Island; and the stern independence of the New England Puritans. On these and other points, on which I have differed from received accounts, I appeal with confidence to the judgment of those who are critically acquainted with the sources of our early history. I have dwelt at considerable length on this first period, because it contains the germ of our institutions. The maturity of the nation is but a continuation of its youth. The spirit of the colonies demanded freedom from the beginning.
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Preface to the first edition (search)
rust was not excited, have almost acquired a prescriptive right to a place in the annals of America. This state of things has increased the difficulty of my undertaking, and, I believe, also, its utility; and I cannot regret the labor which has enabled me to present, under a somewhat new aspect, the early love of liberty in Virginia; the causes and nature of its loyalty; its commercial freedom; the colonial policy of Cromwell; the independent spirit of Maryland; the early institutions of Rhode Island; and the stern independence of the New England Puritans. On these and other points, on which I have differed from received accounts, I appeal with confidence to the judgment of those who are critically acquainted with the sources of our early history. I have dwelt at considerable length on this first period, because it contains the germ of our institutions. The maturity of the nation is but a continuation of its youth. The spirit of the colonies demanded freedom from the beginning.
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Colonial History (search)
established on the shores of Nova Scotia or Newfoundland. It is even suggested, that these early adventurers anchored near the harbor of Boston, or in the bays of New Jersey; and Danish antiquaries believe that Northmen entered the waters of Rhode Island, inscribed their adventures on the rocks of Taunton River, gave the name of Vinland to the south-east coasts of New England, and explored the inlets of our country as far as Carolina. But the story of the colonization of America by North-men,n exhibited, they did not form a conception of their use, nor learn to covet their possession. Hakluyt, III. 361. Moulton's New York, i. 147, 148. Miller, in N. Y. Hist. Coll. i. 25. Belknap's Am. Biog. i. 33. Leaving the waters of Rhode Island, the persevering 1524 May 5. mariner sailed along the whole coast of New England to Nova Scotia, till he approached the latitude of fifty degrees. The natives of the more northern region were hostile and jealous; it was impossible to concili
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 5: (search)
in the colony to buy negroes, and hold them as slaves forever, had enacted that no black mankind should, by covenant, bond, or otherwise, be held to perpetual service; the master, at the end of ten years, shall set them free, as the manner is with English servants; and that man that will not let his slave go free, or shall sell him away, to the end that he may be enslaved to others for a longer time, shall forfeit to the colony forty pounds. George Fox's Journal, An. 1671. The law of Rhode Island I copied from the records in Providence. Now, forty pounds Chap V.} was nearly twice the value of a negro slave. The law was not enforced; but the principle lived among the people. Conditional servitude, under indentures or covenants, had from the first existed in Virginia. The servant stood to his master in the relation of a debtor, bound to discharge the costs of emigration by the entire employment of his powers for the benefit of his creditor. Oppression early ensued: men who ha
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
rliament and Charles II., to be executed in Rhode Island and Connecticut; and Baltimore and Penn hadGod. It was in June that the lawgiver of Rhode Island, with five companions, embarked on the strehe parent spot, the first inhabited nook of Rhode Island. To express his unbroken confidence in theinfluence on the whole political history of Rhode Island; in no state in the world, not even in the ives of the freemen so much. The annals of Rhode Island, if written in the spirit of philosophy, wo The most touching trait in the founder of Rhode Island was his conduct towards his persecutors. T founder, the legislator, the proprietor of Rhode Island, owed a shelter to the hospitality of an Iny-minded soul. Callender. 17. Thus was Rhode Island the offspring of Massachusetts; but her pol for them a gift of the beautiful island of Rhode Island. The spirit of the institutions establisheicted on the young men for their boldness. Rhode Island itself seemed no longer a safe place of ref
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
i. No. 17. and the request of the island of Rhode Island was equally rejected, because it would not printed Indian labors of Roger Williams, Rhode Island Hist. Coll. i. the like whereof was not extrliament, and especially to Sir Henry Vane, Rhode Island owes its existence as a political state. sure to find them again in some village of Rhode Island. All men were equal; all might meet and deharter and union of what now forms the state of Rhode Island confirmed. The general assembly, in i Henry Vane. Under God, the sheet-anchor of Rhode Island was Sir Henry. Backus, i. 286. But for him, Rhode Island would perhaps have been divided among Chap. X.} 1654. Aug. 27. its neighbors. Fren Clarke, the pure and tolerant Baptist of Rhode Island, one of the happy few who succeed in acquirer was claimed by her husband, and taken to Rhode Island; the latter was sent to England. A woman wn practice the code of Moses; the island of Rhode Island enacted for a year or two a Jewish masquera[2 more...]