The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch. Albert Bushnell Hart Read Quote
One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them. Albert Bushnell Hart Read Quote
In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth. Albert Bushnell Hart Read Quote
Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves. Albert Bushnell Hart Read Quote
The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific. Albert Bushnell Hart Read Quote
