Old Times in the Colonies: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Old Times in the Colonies, credited to Charles Carleton Coffin, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Old Times in the Colonies by Charles Carleton Coffin. Read in English by Keith Salis. The discovery and establishment of a new continent! Who owns it? What will you do with it? How shall it be ruled? How shall a sovereign gain a benefit from it? These questions and more are detailed in an engaging, often witty, and bluntly direct way by Mr. Coffin in, "Old Times in the Colonies." He looks back-and-forth at the many aspects of European life that led many to risk everything to try for better across the ocean. In the process, the reader will get a better understanding of what is meant by, "Separation of Church and State," and get a feel for how religion - free and authoritarian - played its part in shaping the lives of those who came. - Summary by Keith Salis

Recording facts

• Recording title: Old Times in the Colonies
• Author credits: Charles Carleton Coffin
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 37
• Listed recording duration: 11:58:08

Catalogue topics

• history
• United States
• england
• Spain
• France
• pioneers
• colonial settlement
• american settlers

Opening tracks: first 24 of 37

1. 00 - Preface — 8:55
2. 01 - Ch 1 Discovery of San Salvador — 27:51
3. 02 - Ch 2 Forces of Civilization — 21:36
4. 03 - Ch 3 First Settlements — 23:38
5. 04 - Ch 4 The Wise Fool of England and His Times — 22:47
6. 05 - Ch 5 The Beginning of Two Civilizations — 18:50
7. 06 - Ch 6 How Beaver-skins and Tobacco Helped on Civilization — 18:48
8. 07 - Ch 7 The Pilgrims — 18:58
9. 08 - Ch 8 First Years at Plymouth — 18:08
10. 09 - Ch 9 Settlement of New Hampshire, New York, and Canada — 14:09
11. 10 - Ch 10 The Puritan Beginning — 26:31
12. 11 - Ch 11 The Puritans Take Possession of New England — 24:21
13. 12 - Ch 12 Rhode Island and New Hampshire — 16:26
14. 13 - Ch 13 Affairs at Manhattan — 17:12
15. 14 - Ch 14 The Struggle for Liberty in England, and How It Affected America — 19:57
16. 15 - Ch 15 The Quakers — 17:28
17. 16 - Ch 16 The End of Dutch Rule in America — 17:41
18. 17 - Ch 17 The Times of Charles II — 11:04
19. 18 - Ch 18 King Philip's War — 20:16
20. 19 - Ch 19 Louis Frontenac in Canada — 14:06
21. 20 - Ch 20 Governor Berkley and the Virginians — 11:51
22. 21 - Ch 21 How the King Took away the Charters of the Colonies — 12:12
23. 22 - Ch 22 King William's War — 34:22
24. 23 - Ch 23 New Jersey and Maryland — 8:27

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