nedryun | July 20, 2010

Ned Ryun Continues His Series, “Days of Revolution.”  Listen to Episode 3, “The Last of the 13 Colonies.” In this episode: Roger Williams and the founding of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. The establishment of Delaware and North and South Carolina. William Penn and the founding of Pennsylvania as a place of religious toleration. The [...]

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nedryun | June 29, 2009

Ned Ryun continues his series on the Constitutional Convention. In this Episode: The Constitutional Convention and slavery, part two. Connecticut and South Carolina continue to work together to prevent prohibitions of slave imports and taxes on exports. Various delegates provides their views. The similarities between the Constitutional Convention language on slavery and the Northwest Ordinance. [...]

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