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Sep. 25, 2010
The Colonial Dream's Tie to the Law
Exporing the connection between John Smith's dream of colonization and the law, by Christopher Tomlins.
The following is an excerpt from the introduction to "Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580-1865" by Christopher Tomlins (Cambridge University Press).
John Smith's dream of what migrating Englishmen might make of themselves in America has been represented as a foundational statement of colonial New England's economic culture. It was that, and much mor...
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