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Paintings of economic history

Every image made for the Liberty Archive, 439 works in all: 315 original oil paintings of turning points in economic and political history, and the commissioned book covers. Click a painting to see it full size and download the original, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0.

Course paintings

A historical scene for each lecture series, painted in the manner of Sorolla. Each caption names the moment and links to its source.

Painting: a royal clerk records a village's taxable wealth for the Domesday survey, England, 1086

Anatomy of the State

A royal clerk records a village's taxable wealth for the Domesday survey, England, 1086

Painting: Berlin workers carry baskets and a wheelbarrow of banknotes from a factory gate, hyperinflation, autumn 1923

Austrian Theory

Berlin workers carry baskets and a wheelbarrow of banknotes from a factory gate, hyperinflation, autumn 1923

Painting: Jean-Baptiste Say gives his opening lecture on political economy at the College de France, Paris, 1831

Classical Economics

Jean-Baptiste Say gives his opening lecture on political economy at the College de France, Paris, 1831

Painting: groundlings crowd the yard below the stage during a performance at the Globe Theatre, London, 1600

Commerce and Culture

Groundlings crowd the yard below the stage during a performance at the Globe Theatre, London, 1600

Painting: Lincoln speaks as Douglas waits, first Lincoln-Douglas debate, Ottawa, Illinois, August 1858

Debates

Lincoln speaks as Douglas waits, first Lincoln-Douglas debate, Ottawa, Illinois, August 1858

Painting: a Treasury teller weighs out gold for greenbacks on Resumption Day, New York, January 1879

Deflation and Liberty

A Treasury teller weighs out gold for greenbacks on Resumption Day, New York, January 1879

Painting: Parisians watch the Lumiere brothers' first paid film screening, Grand Cafe, 28 December 1895

Documentaries

Parisians watch the Lumiere brothers' first paid film screening, Grand Cafe, 28 December 1895

Painting: firefighters battle a burning South Bronx tenement during the World Series, October 1977

Economic Policy

Firefighters battle a burning South Bronx tenement during the World Series, October 1977

Painting: Governor William Bradford assigns family plots of corn ground at Plymouth Colony, spring 1623

Economics 101

Governor William Bradford assigns family plots of corn ground at Plymouth Colony, spring 1623

Painting: Luddites led by George Mellor batter the door of Rawfolds Mill with hammers, Yorkshire, April 1812

Economics in One Lesson

Luddites led by George Mellor batter the door of Rawfolds Mill with hammers, Yorkshire, April 1812

Painting: students hurl books into the Opernplatz bonfire as Goebbels speaks under swastika flags, Berlin, May 1933

Entertainment

Students hurl books into the Opernplatz bonfire as Goebbels speaks under swastika flags, Berlin, May 1933

Painting: a sailor rows toward the burning wreck of the USS Maine in Havana harbor, February 1898

For a New Liberty

A sailor rows toward the burning wreck of the USS Maine in Havana harbor, February 1898

Painting: Governor DeWitt Clinton pours Lake Erie water into the Atlantic, the Wedding of the Waters, 1825

Great Economic Myths

Governor DeWitt Clinton pours Lake Erie water into the Atlantic, the Wedding of the Waters, 1825

Painting: Colonel Thomas Rainsborough speaks at the Putney Debates in St Mary's Church, Putney, October 1647

History of Liberty

Colonel Thomas Rainsborough speaks at the Putney Debates in St Mary's Church, Putney, October 1647

Painting: sailors and soldiers haul the gilded statue of George III off its pedestal, Bowling Green, New York, July 1776

Homeschool Classroom

Sailors and soldiers haul the gilded statue of George III off its pedestal, Bowling Green, New York, July 1776

Painting: Ibn Khaldun is lowered by rope over the walls of besieged Damascus to meet Timur, January 1401

In Studio Interviews

Ibn Khaldun is lowered by rope over the walls of besieged Damascus to meet Timur, January 1401

Painting: Eugene Debs denounces the war from the bandstand at Canton, Ohio, as agents take notes, June 1918

Individual Lectures

Eugene Debs denounces the war from the bandstand at Canton, Ohio, as agents take notes, June 1918

Painting: Diogenes asks Alexander the Great to stand out of his sunlight, Corinth, 336 BC

Interviews

Diogenes asks Alexander the Great to stand out of his sunlight, Corinth, 336 BC

Painting: Friedrich Engels reads his eulogy at Karl Marx's grave, Highgate Cemetery, 17 March 1883

Marx and Marxism

Friedrich Engels reads his eulogy at Karl Marx's grave, Highgate Cemetery, 17 March 1883

Painting: William Wilberforce weeps as the Commons cheers the vote to abolish the slave trade, 23 February 1807

Mises the Humanitarian

William Wilberforce weeps as the Commons cheers the vote to abolish the slave trade, 23 February 1807

Painting: a Federal Writers' Project interviewer records a formerly enslaved woman's memories on her porch, 1937

Oral History Project

A Federal Writers' Project interviewer records a formerly enslaved woman's memories on her porch, 1937

Painting: ironworkers rivet girders high on the rising Empire State Building, New York, September 1930

Our Enemy, Inflation

Ironworkers rivet girders high on the rising Empire State Building, New York, September 1930

Painting: a bank manager locks the door as depositors peer in, first morning of the 1933 bank holiday

Our Enemy, The State

A bank manager locks the door as depositors peer in, first morning of the 1933 bank holiday

Painting: Xiaogang farmers press red thumbprints on their secret land pact by oil lamp, Anhui, November 1978

Radical Scholarship

Xiaogang farmers press red thumbprints on their secret land pact by oil lamp, Anhui, November 1978

Painting: a clerk on the Federal Hall steps looks back as crowds fill Broad Street, Black Tuesday, New York, 29 October 1929

The Business Cycle

A clerk on the Federal Hall steps looks back as crowds fill Broad Street, Black Tuesday, New York, 29 October 1929

Painting: Sir Edward Grey watches the lamps being lit over St James's Park, London, 3 August 1914

The Costs of War

Sir Edward Grey watches the lamps being lit over St James's Park, London, 3 August 1914

Painting: brokers surge in panic amid ticker tape on the New York Stock Exchange floor, Panic of 1893

The Driver

Brokers surge in panic amid ticker tape on the New York Stock Exchange floor, Panic of 1893

Painting: King Victor Emmanuel III and Mussolini review the Blackshirts from the Quirinal, Rome, 1 November 1922

The Economics of Fascism

King Victor Emmanuel III and Mussolini review the Blackshirts from the Quirinal, Rome, 1 November 1922

Painting: a US soldier orders a Cherokee family from their cabin in the Trail of Tears roundup, 1838

The Ethics of Liberty

A US soldier orders a Cherokee family from their cabin in the Trail of Tears roundup, 1838

Painting: laborers of the National Workshops level the Champ de Mars, Paris, March 1848

The Law

Laborers of the National Workshops level the Champ de Mars, Paris, March 1848

Painting: Senator Nelson Aldrich and bankers draft a central bank plan at the Jekyll Island Club, Georgia, 1910

The Roots of the Fed

Senator Nelson Aldrich and bankers draft a central bank plan at the Jekyll Island Club, Georgia, 1910

Painting: Antonov-Ovseenko bursts in to arrest the Provisional Government, Winter Palace, October 1917

Theory and History

Antonov-Ovseenko bursts in to arrest the Provisional Government, Winter Palace, October 1917

Painting: Thomas Watson hears the first telephone call from Alexander Graham Bell in the next room, Boston, March 1876

Why Economics Matters

Thomas Watson hears the first telephone call from Alexander Graham Bell in the next room, Boston, March 1876

Conceived in Liberty: A Companion in Paintings

Moments from Murray Rothbard’s history of colonial America, in the order they happened, from an AI-assisted companion inspired by his book. Each links to its page, with Rothbard’s own account, the fuller story from other sources, and the sources. Read them as a timeline.

Men in dark doublets and white collars stand bareheaded in wooden pews inside a small timber church, heads bowed, while a seated man at the far end faces a minister in a white surplice, daylight slanting through small windows.
America’s first elected voice30 July 1619

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 3: The Virginia Company.

A woman in a white cap and rolled sleeves crouches in freshly turned earth, pressing seed into a mound while a small child watches. Other families work separate plots behind them, below a palisaded hill.
A plot of their own1623, planting season

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 18: The Founding of Plymouth Colony.

In a plain timber room, a farmer in a brown coat raises one hand in argument at the end of a table, facing a grave man in black seated behind it with other magistrates, while his neighbors stand behind him.
Watertown will not pay17 February 1632

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 19: The Founding of Massachusetts Bay.

In a timber-beamed room, two men in dark doublets grip the arms of a red-faced, shouting man with a raised fist, while another man stands in a sunlit doorway with his hand up and armed men run toward the house behind him.
And we you, for treason28 April 1635

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 8: The Royal Government of Virginia.

A lone man in a heavy dark cloak and wide hat leans into a snowstorm, trudging knee-deep through bare winter woods with a staff, a line of his footprints trailing behind him.
Gone three days beforeJanuary 1636

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 21: Suppressing Heresy: The Flight of Roger Williams.

In a narrow lane of mat-covered wigwams, a helmeted soldier holds a burning brand to a roof as flames and smoke spread, while Pequot men, women and children move away, looking back at the fire.
A joint slaughterFriday, 26 May 1637 (Old Style), at first light

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 27: Joint Action in New England: The Pequot War.

A pale woman in a dark gown and white coif stands alone on a plank floor before a grave man in black who raises a hand to silence her, while rows of seated men in black watch from the benches.
The court knows wherefore8 November 1637

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 22: Suppressing Heresy: The Flight of Anne Hutchinson.

A man in black stands at a plain wooden table in a small log meeting room, one hand raised, while townspeople sit on rough benches and a young man writes in a notebook, in shafts of daylight.
Authority by free consentThursday, 31 May 1638 (Old Style)

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 25: The Planting of Connecticut.

Two men shout and point at each other across a heavy table in a timber-framed room, while guards grip the arms of one and townspeople crowd around, a tipped stool in the foreground.
Lay hold on Coddington1640

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 23: The Further Settlement of Rhode Island: The Odyssey of Samuell Gorton.

Inside a plain stone church, a dark-gowned minister at a wooden pulpit raises a hand while worshippers turn to the bright open doors, where a soldier beats a drum in drifting smoke.
He would not be silencedmid-1640s (exact year unrecorded)

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 39: Governors and Government.

In a small timber-framed room, a man in a doorway points at three seated magistrates behind a table, while armed men with muskets and pikes crowd in behind him in cold grey light.
Governor for life, brieflyearly 1652 (about February)

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 24: Rhode Island in the 1650s: Roger Williams’ Shift from Liberty.

A bareheaded man in a plain dark coat sits on the dirt street with his ankles locked in wooden stocks, looking calmly up at a half circle of townspeople in wool clothes before timber-framed houses.
Two hours for a kiss1656, the day unrecorded

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 20: The Puritans Purify: Theocracy in Massachusetts.

A young Black man in a plain linen shirt sits upright on the ground among cut tobacco plants, looking steadily up at a white man in dark clothes and a broad hat who stands over him with a switch, while field workers watch from the rows.
Tony will not rise20 September 1656

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 12: Maryland.

A young bearded man in a plain dark coat and broad hat walks bound behind a cart on a dusty road, two women in the cart looking back at him, musketeers marching on both sides in low sun.
Dragged at the cart’s tailAugust 1657

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 41: New Netherland Persecutes the Quakers.

A bareheaded man sits on sandy ground with his ankles locked in wooden stocks, glaring up at a half circle of townspeople in plain wool clothes before a small thatched town house.
The town stocks its marshalafter 1 June 1658, during Barlow's term as marshal of Sandwich (the day is unrecorded)

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 36: The Decline and the Rigors of Plymouth.

A calm woman in a plain brown dress and white linen cap walks up a dusty marsh road between two drummers and soldiers carrying tall pikes, toward the blurred timber post of a gallows at the right edge of the picture.
That none might hear her speak1 June 1660

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 29: Suppressing Heresy: Massachusetts Persecutes the Quakers.

A lean man in a rough canvas coat raises one arm in a cold farmyard at dusk, speaking to a ring of poorly dressed men who watch him closely, with a wooden farmhouse and barn behind them.
Who will be for liberty?around New Year 1661, before 6 January 1661

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 6: The Social Structure of Virginia: Bondservants and Slaves.

In a plain council room, a stern man in black with a wooden leg flings torn paper to the floor while burgomasters draw back and a young man stoops to gather the scraps.
Torn to bits, read anyway2 September 1664

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 42: The Fall and Breakup of New Netherland.

In a sunlit dirt lane, eight townsmen in plain wool and broad hats haul on a rope and pry with poles, tearing a split-rail fence apart as rails fly, while two rip boards from a new house behind.
Not the governor’s to give1671

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 43: The Northern Colonies, 1666-1675.

A broad-shouldered man in a dark coat and wide hat stands on the step of a small wooden church and speaks to a half circle of men in winter cloaks on frosty ground, with a wide river behind them.
We will pay no more12 December 1673

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 9: British Mercantilism over Virginia.

A gray-haired officer in a plain brown coat reads from a paper to a tall, wigged gentleman in a red coat on a shingle beach, with soldiers holding muskets behind him and a small fort and ship beyond.
His bluff called at Saybrook13 July 1675

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 46: King Philip’s War.

An old man in a long coat pulls his shirt open before a young man flanked by men with long guns, outside a brick statehouse whose upper window is crowded with faces.
Commission at gunpoint23 June 1676

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 11: Bacon’s Rebellion.

A well-dressed man in a long wig is held by the arms by rough planters as iron manacles are closed on his wrists, while a weathered man in a broad hat watches him and armed men crowd the yard of a wooden house beside a wide river.
Clapped in irons4 December 1677

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 14: The Aftermath of Bacon’s Rebellion in the Other Southern Colonies.

At night in a lantern’s glow, soldiers in coats and broad hats drag a barefoot man in a white nightshirt out through a house window while one raises a musket butt.
Dragged through the window30 April 1680

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 53: Turmoil in East New Jersey, 1678-1686.

A farmer in a plain broad hat stands at his plow behind halted oxen, one hand raised, between two neighbors who face him in a stump-dotted spring field beside a plank farmhouse.
Justice at the plow1680

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 54: The Development of West New Jersey.

A tall old man in black stands alone on a plank floor, arm outstretched, speaking to rows of seated men in dark coats in a plain timber room lit by small grey windows; some wave him down and some glare.
Danforth calls it treasonFebruary–March 1682

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 49: Edward Randolph versus Massachusetts, 1680-1684.

A man in a plain dark coat and broad-brimmed hat clasps the hand of a standing Lenape speaker before a half-circle of seated Lenape elders in woven mantles, beneath a great bare elm above a wide river.
Peace under the elmNovember 1682 (the traditional date of the treaty of friendship at Shackamaxon)

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 55: “The Holy Experiment”: The Founding of Pennsylvania, 1681-1690.

A heavy man in a brown winter coat and broad-brimmed hat rides a bay horse down a village street, sword raised, with a trumpeter at his side and armed riders behind, while villagers watch from their doors.
Sword drawn, trumpet sounding27 January 1683

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 48: The Crown Takes Over New Hampshire, 1680-1685.

A very tall man in a black coat stands in the aisle of a plain timber hall with one arm raised, while rows of farmers on benches lift their hands, and a clerk at a table looks up from his quill.
Stand for our privileges23 August 1687

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 56: The Dominion of New England.

A young man in a dark coat points up an earth bank at a periwigged governor in red at a gate, with a crowd of armed townsmen behind him and red-coated soldiers standing with grounded muskets on the top.
The fort and the governor18 April 1689

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 57: The Glorious Revolution in the Northern Colonies, 1689.

A lean man in a plain dark coat stands on the grass with a folded paper, before a two-storey brick building, as men with long guns crowd its door and window and other armed men file out.
Marched up resolutely27 July 1689

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 15: The Glorious Revolution and its Aftermath.

Two men in dark wet coats stand bareheaded on a plank scaffold in the rain, one with a hand raised, before a packed crowd of weeping townspeople, under a timber gallows from which a single empty noose hangs.
Hanged in his own garden16 May 1691

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 58: The Glorious Revolution in the Northern Colonies, 1690-1692.

A young farmer in shirtsleeves and a waistcoat stands in the firelit doorway of a clapboard farmhouse at dusk, a musket upright at his side, looking down an empty lane while a saddled horse waits at the post.
Come at your own peril1692

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 59: Aftermath of the 1690s: The Salem Witch Hunt and Stoughton’s Rise to Power.

A young man in a plain brown coat stands on a shop doorstep in a sunlit street of brick and timber houses, watching officers carry a heavy wooden printing press and cases of type down the steps.
Philadelphia’s only press, seizedsummer 1692, before the proclamation against Keith at the end of August

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 64: Government Returns to Pennsylvania.

Farmers in wool coats and broad hats stand across a sandy country road holding clubs at rest, facing a governor in a periwig and his halted posse, under a hazy summer sky with fenced fields behind.
A hundred men with clubslate July 1700, after the assault on Sheriff Stewart on 17 July and before 30 July

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 63: The Unification of the Jerseys.

A stout man in a long wig and brown coat walks stiffly down a dusty street with a clerk, while a crowd of workmen behind him hoots and waves their hats, with a harbor and ship masts at the end of the street.
Hooted down the street27 June 1705

Conceived in Liberty, Volume I, chapter 62: Rhode Island and Connecticut after the Glorious Revolution.

Inside a log fort’s gate, armed men bind the wrists of a group of Indian men and women while a coated officer with a sword stands watching; the captives look back at him, steady and angry, in soft spring light.
Peace was the baitspring 1712, after the peace made at Hancock's Fort on 17 April

Conceived in Liberty, Volume II, chapter 19: Indian War in North Carolina.

A red-faced man in a dark coat and askew wig sits astride a fence rail carried by four men through a dirt lane, glaring at a bearded farmer with folded arms, while women in caps follow and log cabins line the lane.
Run out on a rail1715

Conceived in Liberty, Volume II, chapter 7: New York Land Monopoly.

On a cold harbor-front street a line of townsmen in plain coats and hats levels muskets across the open ground at a periwigged governor, stopped mid-stride with one hand up, while a grey-wigged colonel holds out a flat palm.
Muskets for the governor21 December 1719

Conceived in Liberty, Volume II, chapter 23: Proprietary Rule in South Carolina.

At the edge of a half-cleared mountain plot, a band of Black men and women in plain work clothes hold axes, hoes and two guns pointed down, facing armed white men who come out of the forest toward them in spring light.
They cleared their own land1729

Conceived in Liberty, Volume II, chapter 18: Slavery in Virginia.

In a low, firelit taproom, men in blankets and caps with soot-smeared faces burst in with clubs on seated men at a long table, while one attacker pinches out the last candle.
When the candles went out23 April 1734

Conceived in Liberty, Volume II, chapter 35: Mercantilist Restrictions.

In a packed courtroom, men swing hats and raise their arms as a pale printer grips the bar beside a grave, grey-wigged lawyer, with a stern judge in a white wig watching from the raised bench and jurors standing at left.
Three huzzas in the hall4 August 1735

Conceived in Liberty, Volume II, chapter 27: The Communication of Ideas: Postal Service and the Freedom of the Press.

A dense column of farmers in linen shirts and wool coats marches along a sandy road through tall pines, guns on shoulders, hats raised, a rider at the head turning to shout back at them, dust rising in afternoon sun.
Five hundred marched for one man1737, in the months before Governor Johnston's letter of 6 October

Conceived in Liberty, Volume II, chapter 21: Royal Government in North Carolina.

Along a sandy pine-lined road a column of enslaved men in plain shirts and caps marches toward the viewer behind a bareheaded leader, two drummers and a raised pale banner, muskets on shoulders, smoke rising far behind them.
Drums beating, marching for liberty9 September 1739

Conceived in Liberty, Volume II, chapter 22: Slavery in South Carolina.

At night a young man in a black gown and white bands spreads his arms from a brick gallery, lit by lanterns, while a packed street of hatted men and women looks up in silence, a stout man in a plain coat among them.
A voice for thirty thousand8 November 1739

Conceived in Liberty, Volume II, chapter 29: The Great Awakening.

At night, townsmen haul on a rope to pull over the racked timber frame of a meetinghouse, while two men saw a beam and a small fire burns; a group of plainly dressed families watches at the edge of the firelight.
Pulled down in the night1740

Conceived in Liberty, Volume II, chapter 10: The Ulster Scots.

A sheriff with arms spread holds back a packed, shouting crowd in front of two tall stakes where two chained men stand upright, wood piled at their knees, on open ground under a spring sky.
The crowd would not wait30 May 1741

Conceived in Liberty, Volume II, chapter 8: Slavery in New York.

Before a brick Court House in a sunlit street, broad-hatted Quakers and German farmers come down the steps with staves raised, driving back sailors in short jackets and knitted caps who swing clubs and give ground.
Knock down the broad brims1 October 1742

Conceived in Liberty, Volume II, chapter 12: Pennsylvania: Quakers and Indians.

A lean farmer with one arm flung out leads a packed crowd with raised clubs across a frozen street toward a double rank of militia holding muskets upright before a plain jail, on a cold bright winter morning.
Fire and you dieJanuary 1746

Conceived in Liberty, Volume II, chapter 9: Land Conflicts in New Jersey.

In a brick house’s courtyard a governor in a white wig stands on the top step at his door drawing in a naval officer, while below a seaman with a cutlass loses his hat to a blow and a crowd of armed seamen looks up.
A cutlass at the governor’s door17 November 1747

Conceived in Liberty, Volume II, chapter 36: King George’s War.

A wide river under a bright sky: a flat boat loaded with chests, tools and families is poled toward the viewer, a plain-dressed man in a broad hat standing at its bow, cattle swimming beside it and a boy in a dugout canoe.
Into the land of no-governmentApril 1755

Conceived in Liberty, Volume II, chapter 25: Georgia: The “Humanitarian” Colony.

A stout general in a red coat and a young officer in dark blue sit their horses in a forest road among red-coated soldiers firing across it, with white smoke in the trees and a dead horse in the dust.
The general rides into the smoke9 July 1755

Conceived in Liberty, Volume II, chapter 37: Early Phases of the French and Indian War.

Packed Acadian men and boys in a plain timber church turn toward a blue-coated officer who stands among them reading from a paper, with soldiers holding bayonets upright along the wall and daylight through the open door.
Come and hear the King’s ordersFriday, 5 September 1755, at three o'clock in the afternoon

Conceived in Liberty, Volume II, chapter 38: The Persecution of the Acadians.

A stout man in a dark coat and cocked hat, one hand raised, halts a long column of militiamen in a cold street before a large plain building as gentlemen in wigs hurry down its steps and away.
The colonel halts at the Academy28 February 1756

Conceived in Liberty, Volume II, chapter 13: The Emergence of Benjamin Franklin.

On a Boston street, townspeople pull a dazed young man in shirt sleeves away from two soldiers in red coats, while a sergeant staggers back with his arm raised and a drum lies kicked over on the cobbles.
Snatched back from the recruiters1758

Conceived in Liberty, Volume II, chapter 40: The American Colonies and the War.

In a plain whitewashed meeting house, a slight man in a broad-brimmed hat stands up from a bench to speak while rows of hatted Quaker men around him sit bowed or turn to listen, light falling from tall windows.
It is not a time for delaySeptember 1758

Conceived in Liberty, Volume II, chapter 31: The Quakers and the Abolition of Slavery.

At dusk, armed men in good coats and boots split open the heavy door of a small timber jail by lantern light while four freed prisoners step out; horses stand behind the ring of men.
They broke their neighbors out14 May 1759

Conceived in Liberty, Volume II, chapter 20: The North Carolina Proprietary.

In a high panelled chamber lit by a great fire, a stout man in a black gown and white wig flings out one arm before five judges in scarlet robes and white wigs, while gowned barristers at a long table and a packed crowd watch.
An act against equity is void24 February 1761

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 5: Writs of Assistance in Massachusetts.

At dusk in a market square, townspeople in black carry an empty cider cask hung with crape and young apple trees round a roaring bonfire where a straw figure in a plaid burns on a post, a church tower behind.
Burying cider, burning Butespring 1763

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 4: The British Army and the Grand Design.

Before a brick-faced fort under a summer sky, a scarlet-coated officer holds out folded blankets in both hands to a Delaware man in a blanket and silver gorget, a second Delaware man beside him, soldiers watching from the rampart.
A gift from the hospital24 June 1763

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 2: The Ohio Lands: Pontiac’s Rebellion.

A young man in a dark coat rides high on the shoulders of four men across a muddy yard, one hand raised, as a crowd of farmers and townsmen cheers and waves hats before a brick courthouse with arched doorways.
One penny and a hero1 December 1763

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 17: The Parsons’ Cause.

In a grey London street before an arcaded exchange, a young man in a knitted cap snatches a smoking paper from a hangman’s torch as a packed crowd hurls wood, a gentleman watching from a carriage with a broken window.
They saved the North Briton3 December 1763

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 18: Wilkes and Liberty, 1763-1764.

In a winter barracks square, plain-coated men in broad hats march with muskets on their shoulders past a line of cannon toward a doorway where Indian families in simple clothes stand and watch.
Quakers shoulder arms6 February 1764

Conceived in Liberty, Volume II, chapter 14: The Paxton Boys.

Behind a stone fort wall, gunners beside a cannon wreathed in white smoke and townsmen with muskets watch a small two-masted schooner sail away across sunlit water below a far shore of roofs and steeples.
Fire on the King’s schoonerJuly 1764

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 15: The Newport Case.

In a low tavern room a big man in a greatcoat grips a thin man in a wig by the collar and shoves him out through a sunlit doorway, his hat flying, while a ring of silent merchants looks on.
No bids, and a shovelate November 1764

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 14: Enforcement Troubles.

In a wood-paneled hall a young man in a dark coat stands among benches of wigged gentlemen, one arm stretched toward a canopied chair where an older man in a grey wig has risen, hand flung out, as the whole room turns to watch.
Caesar had his Brutus29 May 1765

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 21: Patrick Henry Intervenes.

Under a great elm in summer light, a crowd of tradesmen, sailors and women look up at a straw figure in a coat and a green boot with a small devil hanging from a branch, while a gentleman and two deputies hold back at the crowd’s edge.
The first revolutionary blow14 August 1765

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 22: Sam Adams Rallies Boston.

Before a long brick courthouse, three cloth effigies with ropes round their necks hang from a wooden gallows in afternoon sun, while three hunched men in heavy coats and flapped hats hold clubs in front of it and a crowd looks up.
The Tory Junto swings in effigy27 August 1765

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 23: Rhode Island Responds.

On a night street lit by hand lanterns, ranks of workmen in aprons and round hats stand holding sticks before a shuttered brick house, all turned toward a far orange glow at the end of the street.
Tradesmen defend the stamp master16 September 1765

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 27: Response in Pennsylvania.

In a sunlit village street a man in a wig and long coat stands on a wooden chair, one arm flung up as his cocked hat sails into the air, ringed by a crowd of men raising pale staves and hats, with horses and clapboard houses behind.
Made to cheer for liberty19 September 1765

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 26: Response in Connecticut.

At dusk in a torchlit street, six men carry a stuffed figure in a gentleman’s coat on a bier, a horned devil and a huge boot on poles above the crowd, a tall empty gallows behind them.
A funeral for the stamp master19 October 1765

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 28: Response in the Carolinas and Georgia.

In a wide sandy street at dusk a dusty, pale man stands alone with one hand raised, hat in the other, ringed by gentlemen in good coats and wigs who lean in to press him, with a long brick building at the end of the street.
The mob wore good coats30 October 1765

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 25: Response in Virginia.

At night a closed coach burns on a green, flames lighting a ring of packed faces and two effigies hanging from a wooden gibbet, with the dark ramparts and gun muzzles of a stone fort looming behind and sparks rising.
Burn the governor’s coach1 November 1765

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 24: Response in New York.

In a packed, candle-lit chamber of tiered benches a gaunt man in a white wig stands gripping the bench before him, one arm flung out, looking down at a seated man with folded arms, as rows of wigged members turn to watch.
I rejoice that America resisted14 January 1766

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 33: Repeal of the Stamp Act.

In a plain timber room, armed men in coats and felt hats hold a stout man in a grey wig by the arms while another forces open a writing desk and pulls out papers, three vessels’ masts in the window behind.
The collector’s desk is forced19 February 1766

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 31: Ignoring the Stamp Tax.

A tired, unshaven man in shirt and waistcoat stoops out through a low stone cellar door into bright sun, caught by the forearms by two farmers, as a packed crowd in felt hats raises staves around him.
The debt was for rentearly June 1766, a few days before 10 June

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 36: The New York Land Revolt.

On a dusty common a crowd of tradesmen and sailors falls back around a felled pine mast as red-coated soldiers rush in with bayonets and drawn swords, a stocky man in a dark coat standing ahead of the crowd with one hand raised.
Cut down the Liberty Pole11 August 1766

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 34: Aftermath of Repeal.

On a lantern-lit ship’s deck at night, a tall man in a dark blue coat and wig stands with one hand extended toward the planks while two sailors lift a plain-coated man up out of a hatch, among a ring of watching men.
No search below deck9 April 1768

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 39: Conflict in Boston.

Before a high brick prison wall, a double rank of redcoated soldiers fires in thick white smoke while a magistrate in a wig flings out an arm, and a packed crowd in the foreground recoils with raised hands and hats.
Fired on for crying Liberty10 May 1768

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 40: Wilkes and Liberty: The Massacre of St. George’s Fields.

In a sunlit pine clearing a bearded man stands with his wrists bound around a tree trunk, looking back over his shoulder, while a man behind him draws back a whip and armed men look on.
The test of an honest livingsummer 1768, after the Regulators' congress adopted the Plan of Regulation in June

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 50: The South Carolina Regulation.

At night a dark-haired man in a vest and sash stands on a lit doorstep passing a musket down to reaching hands, a grim man with a blazing torch beside him, a crowd of straw-hatted laborers below, thatched huts and palms behind.
Enough of Turnbull’s seven years19 August 1768

Conceived in Liberty, Volume II, chapter 42: Administering the Conquests.

In a long plain hall crowded with men, a stout man in a blue coat and white wig points down at two open chests of upright muskets, a plainly dressed man beside him with folded arms, tall arched windows behind.
There are the arms12 and 13 September 1768

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 41: British Troops Occupy Boston.

In the shade of a huge moss-hung oak, a bald man in a blue coat and pale waistcoat holds up a paper and reads aloud to a packed crowd of gentlemen and craftsmen, some with hats in hand.
Read aloud under the Liberty Tree22 July 1769

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 42: Nonimportation in the South.

In a candlelit tavern room, a florid man in a grey coat raises a cane over a stout man in a blue coat and white wig who is held by the arms by several others, as watchers half rise from their chairs around them.
Otis denied fair play5 September 1769

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 44: Boycotting the Importers.

On a sloping winter street red-coated soldiers with bayonets and cutlasses crash into a crowd of sailors and townsmen swinging fence rungs, sticks and a chain, while faces watch from windows and doorways of small houses.
Bayonets against chains and sticks19 January 1770

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 46: Conflict in New York.

On a snowy night a line of redcoated soldiers fires muskets into a crowd, white smoke billowing, while a tall man at the front of the crowd staggers backward, a stick slipping from his hand, before a two-story building with one lit window.
Who fired from the window?5 March 1770

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 45: The Boston Massacre.

On a night street, torchlit marchers behind a tall plain banner stagger back as a crowd of men with raised sticks, led by a stout merchant in a wig and cocked hat, surges into them between rows of brick houses with lit windows.
Clubs break the boycott parade7 July 1770

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 49: New York Breaks Nonimportation.

In a plain timber courtroom packed with men in hunting shirts and felt hats holding clubs and whips, a lean farmer holds up a paper before a wigged judge seated at a raised bench.
A courtroom packed with clubs24 September 1770

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 51: The North Carolina Regulation.

Night on calm water: a longboat full of men at the oars pulls away from a two-masted schooner burning on a low shore, its fire mirrored in the water. In the stern a pale man wrapped in a white blanket and dark coat lies back, looking at the flames.
The Gaspee burns behind him10 June 1772

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 53: The Gaspee Incident.

In a forest clearing a tall man shouts with a long gun raised high overhead, muzzle to the sky, beside a stocky man holding up an open hand, before a crowd of armed countrymen pulling down a half-built log house.
This is my lawAugust 1773

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 71: The Vermont Revolution: The Green Mountain Boys.

From low on the mud beside a ship’s dark hull, men with blackened faces and blankets tip a split chest over the rail, tea pouring onto a heap of leaves and broken boards where bare-armed youths beat it with staves. Torchlit onlookers line the wharf.
The monopoly’s tea hits the mud16 December 1773

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 56: The Boston Tea Party.

By lantern light on a ship’s deck at dusk, New Yorkers in shirts and round hats tip a stove-in tea chest over the rail so dark tea pours into the river, while others carry chests from an open hatch and a gentleman in a white wig looks on.
The captain hid eighteen chests22 April 1774

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 57: The Other Colonies Resist Tea.

A white-wigged old judge stands on wooden court house steps with one hand raised as a packed crowd of dusty farmers in felt hats, some with staves and grounded muskets, looks up at him in silence on a sunlit road.
Thousands came for the powder2 September 1774

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 62: Resistance in Massachusetts.

At dusk in a Charleston street, schoolboys in small coats and round hats drag a splintered tea chest and throw a canister into a roaring bonfire while townspeople watch from behind.
The schoolboys’ tea bonfire5 November 1774

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 64: The Continental Association.

In a tall packed meeting house, a young man in a black coat stands in a high pulpit with one arm flung out, while scarlet-coated officers on the pulpit stairs lean forward hissing and a plainly dressed man sits below facing them.
Fields of blood, and a hiss6 March 1775

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 67: Massachusetts: Nearing the Final Conflict.

In a plain wooden church a lean man stands upright in a box pew, one arm thrust high, as rows of wigged delegates in dark coats lean toward him in the cold light from tall windows.
Give me liberty, or death23 March 1775

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 68: Support from Virginia.

At dawn on a village green, a mounted officer in a red coat flings out an arm and shouts at a line of farmers in mismatched coats and hats, while their captain, hand raised, turns toward him; redcoats in black caps stand behind.
Throw down your arms19 April 1775

Conceived in Liberty, Volume III, chapter 69: “The Shot Heard Round the World”: The Final Conflict Begins.

Two stout men in shirtsleeves stand in a smashed stone doorway handing long muskets to a crowd of artisans and sailors whose hands reach up, while the first men walk off with guns on their shoulders.
Muskets for all comers23 April 1775

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 12: New York Fumbles in the Crisis.

At gray dawn on a lake shore a tall man in a hunting frock flings out an arm before long ranks of countrymen, who hold their guns upright in answer, with an officer in a scarlet coat beside him and empty boats behind.
Poise your firelocks10 May 1775

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 4: The Seizure of Fort Ticonderoga.

Inside an earthen fort, a lean officer in a pale loose coat stands on the wall with one hand out flat, and militiamen rest long guns on the parapet as lines of redcoats climb a hay-covered hill under smoke.
Hold your fire17 June 1775

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 7: The Battle of Bunker Hill.

On a wooded hill a tall rider in a blue coat holds out a hand to frontiersmen in pale fringed hunting frocks, who lower long rifles to the ground, while a ring of infantry with fixed bayonets surrounds them.
Ground your arms10 September 1775

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 8: Washington Transforms the Army.

In a field by a ditch, a huge hatless man holds out his sword hilt first to an officer in a red coat, with tired countrymen in the ditch behind him and redcoats and militia with fixed bayonets closing in.
Allen hands over his sword25 September 1775

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 9: The Invasion of Canada.

On a country road a woman carrying a child looks back over her shoulder as families with a handcart and a cow hurry away, while warships fire at a burning wooden town beside the harbor below.
Burn, destroy, and lay waste18 October 1775

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 21: Privateering and the War at Sea.

In a cold bright street a stocky rider leads two ranks of horsemen with fixed bayonets before a brick shop, while men carry out sacks and a wrecked press and a crowd on the pavement cheers.
Smashing the Tory press23 November 1775

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 15: Suppressing Tories in New York.

At night before a lit brick courthouse, a tall gaunt general holds up a paper toward three proud gentlemen with folded arms, while young soldiers with muskets and lanterns stand round them.
Swear it or be jailed25 December 1775

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 14: Suppressing Tories in Rhode Island and Connecticut.

At dusk on a wharf, soldiers in long hunting shirts thrust torches into burning wooden houses and warehouses, while a frigate in the river fires a broadside and a family with a handcart flees along the quay.
Who burned Norfolk?1 January 1776

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 17: Virginia Battles Lord Dunmore.

On a frozen hilltop under a bright moon a general points as workmen heave a heavy timber frame upright beside others packed with brush, with hay bales and barrels at the edge and a dark harbor and town beyond.
More in one night4 March 1776

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 20: Forcing the British Out of Boston.

In a driving rain a stout man in a dark coat stands on a plank stage holding a paper while a vast crowd of men cheers and throws hats into the air before a red brick State House with a tall steeple.
Hats flying in the rain20 May 1776

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 31: The Struggle in Pennsylvania and Delaware.

On the gun platform of a log fort a crew in shirtsleeves fires an iron cannon through the parapet in a cloud of smoke, while an officer in a blue coat points at British warships firing across the bright water.
Logs against the Royal Navy28 June 1776

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 19: The British Assault on Charleston.

A thin rider in a green scarf and dark coat gallops a muddy, sweating horse straight toward the viewer down a night road, lit by a fork of lightning, with slanting rain over flat fields and fences.
Ride all night for independence1 July 1776

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 33: Independence Declared.

In rain at night, two fishermen row a crowded open boat across a dark river while a third steers from the stern, and soldiers with upright muskets sit packed between them, looking back at a distant glow.
The night the army slipped away29 August 1776

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 35: The Invasion of New York.

In falling snow at night, a huge officer shouts and points across a river as men heave a brass field gun up planks onto a ferry scow, while a dark boat of soldiers moves off into floating ice.
Eighteen guns across the ice25 December 1776

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 36: The Campaigns in New Jersey.

In a hill farmyard, a bareheaded farmer stands alone with open hands before a line of militia aiming muskets from a rail fence, while ragged men behind him set their old guns on the ground.
Fire on any man who runs5 May 1777

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 38: Rebellion at Livingston Manor.

In a country store a crowd of women in caps and aprons holds out bags and baskets round a counter where two soldiers weigh tea from an open chest and stack a few coins, watched by a pale woman behind the counter.
Their own price for tea19 May 1777

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 67: Inflationary Finance and Price Controls.

A lean man in plain clothes strides uphill pointing at a log fort on the crest, while farmers in shirtsleeves with paper in their hats run up the slope behind him, and white smoke drifts from the fort.
Or Molly Stark sleeps a widow16 August 1777

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 39: The Burgoyne Disaster.

A column of thin, ragged soldiers in blankets and patched coats trudges along a frozen rutted road toward a bare hillside, the nearest man barefoot with bloodied rags on his feet, under a low grey sky.
Shoeless into Valley Forge19 December 1777

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 41: Winter at Valley Forge.

In a gilded chamber an old man in a plain brown coat, his white hair unpowdered, bows slightly before a tall young king in embroidered silk, while courtiers in powder and silk look on before a great canopied bed.
The plain man at court20 March 1778

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 43: Response in Britain and France.

Under a hot noon sun a tall rider on a white horse thrusts out an arm and shouts at a thin man on a brown horse who shrinks back, while tired soldiers in shirtsleeves file past behind them on a dusty road.
No chance to explain28 June 1778

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 42: The Battle of Monmouth and the Ouster of Lee.

Up a rocky winter hillside a lean man with one arm thrown forward runs at the head of a rush of homespun militiamen, rifle smoke streaming, toward a camp where men scatter among penned cattle and loose horses.
The camp surrounded14 February 1779

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 53: The Invasion of Georgia.

At a muddy farm gate in early spring, a man in a plain coat hands the halter rope of a red cow to a smiling farmer, while a crowd of men with muskets and a second cow wait behind him and a woman holds a child.
The Cow War beginsApril 1779

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 75: The Republic of Vermont.

A crowd of militiamen with muskets and bayonets stands in a street looking up at a three-storey brick house, where two men at upper windows hold guns beside gun barrels thrust out over the street.
Barricaded on Walnut Street4 October 1779

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 68: Conservative Counter-Revolution: Massachusetts and Pennsylvania in 1780.

On open ground a young officer in a green jacket and plumed helmet leads a line of galloping dragoons with raised sabres into a thin line of musket-armed infantry firing through white smoke as a mounted colonel gives the order.
Tarleton’s quarter29 May 1780

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 54: The Capture of Charleston.

Behind a weathered rail fence at dawn, homespun riflemen fire across a road, their rifles on the top rail, powder smoke streaming, into a camp of tents where men in green jackets stir and an officer swings onto a horse.
The fence rail volley12 July 1780

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 55: The Emergence of Guerrilla Warfare in South Carolina.

Frontiersmen in hunting shirts climb a wooded, rocky slope, one aiming a long rifle uphill from behind an oak while gunsmoke drifts between the trunks toward red-coated soldiers on the open summit above.
Tree to tree, up the mountain7 October 1780

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 57: The Battle of King’s Mountain and the End of the 1780 Campaign.

Inside a log stockade a dark-haired rifleman in a hunting shirt levels his long rifle from the hip at a pale major in a blue coat who gestures toward a half-open gate, while grim militiamen look on behind him.
A bullet before surrender17 October 1780

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 51: The War in the West.

At night in the snow a stocky sergeant strides at the head of a long column of ragged soldiers, one fist raised, behind men hauling a small cannon on ropes, torches burning, rows of log huts behind them.
Justice before obedience1 January 1781

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 49: The End of the War in the North.

On a cold, frosty meadow at dawn, British dragoons with raised sabres charge from the left toward a line of frontiersmen in hunting shirts, who aim long rifles as a big mounted officer turns in the saddle to watch.
Fire, fall back, fire again17 January 1781

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 58: Greene’s Unorthodox Strategy.

On a tropical beach a thin old admiral in a blue and white coat stands among rows of barrels while sailors roll more from stone warehouses and Dutch merchants in dark coats look on, stunned, under a hard blue sky.
Plunder on the beachFebruary 1781

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 50: The War at Sea.

On a muddy road through a winter wood, a young officer in a green jacket and plumed helmet clasps the hand of a grey-haired man in a brown coat while green-coated horsemen ride past with swords held low.
The handshake on the road25 February 1781

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 60: The Battle of Guilford Courthouse.

At dawn a tall tower of notched pine logs rises over open ground, riflemen on its top platform firing down over the stockade of a fort on a steep earth mound, while a lean officer at the tower’s foot watches.
Riflemen above the stockade23 April 1781

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 61: The Liberation of South Carolina.

Two long lines of allied soldiers, French in white and Americans in blue and brown, face a road where a column of British soldiers in red lays muskets on a pile as two commanders on horseback look on.
The World Turned Upside Down19 October 1781

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 62: The Final Battle.

In a dim log chapel at dusk, families sit close together on benches and sing, an old man leading with his eyes closed, while a dark figure with a rifle held low stands in the open doorway at the edge of the frame.
The hymn before the morning7 March 1782

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 63: After Yorktown in the West.

Before a plain wooden courthouse, a hatless man in a dark coat holds a stick high and points at a woodpile, while farmers in homespun crowd round him and two men in grey wigs watch from the open doorway.
Knock their grey wigs off4 April 1782

Conceived in Liberty, Volume V, chapter 4: The Burdens of State Public Debt.

In a long log hall under grey window light, a tall grey-haired man in a blue coat lifts spectacles to his face with a letter in his other hand, as rows of officers on benches look up at him, some wiping their eyes.
Gray and almost blind15 March 1783

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 72: The Newburgh Conspiracy.

Two ranks of soldiers with fixed bayonets line a lane across a yard before a red-brick hall with a tower, while a small group of men in dark coats and white wigs walks down it, and soldiers raise muskets toward the windows.
Congress leaves under bayonets21 June 1783

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 73: The Fall of Morris and the Emergence of the Order of the Cincinnati.

In a muddy clearing by a log cabin, a young officer in a blue coat holds a paper open and reads aloud to a line of armed settlers in hunting shirts, while soldiers with grounded muskets stand in ranks behind him.
Forty rifles and one orderApril 1785

Conceived in Liberty, Volume V, chapter 7: The Old Northwest.

Farmers with green sprigs in their hats crowd one side of a dirt road and militia with white paper in theirs stand on the other, before a small wooden courthouse, as three plainly dressed men walk across between them.
Hemlock against white paper26 September 1786

Conceived in Liberty, Volume V, chapter 11: Shays’ Rebellion.

Behind a log wall in a swamp camp, armed men stand guard looking out over black water and moss-draped cypress, while a woman tends a cooking fire with a child at her side and an older woman stands in a small cornfield.
The King of England’s soldiersApril 1787

Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, chapter 78: Elimination of Feudalism and the Beginnings of the Abolition of Slavery.

In a tall, plain hall with a raised platform at the far end, a grey-haired man in a torn brown coat lunges toward a side door while townsmen spread their arms to block it, as a thickset man glares from a table.
A quorum by force29 September 1787

Conceived in Liberty, Volume V, chapter 25: The Battle for Pennsylvania.

In a dim print shop lit by candle and torchlight, a lean man in shirt and waistcoat stands in a far doorway with a smoking pistol, while men tip a case of metal type across the floor and out of a window.
Type in the street26 July 1788

Conceived in Liberty, Volume V, chapter 33: The Battle for New York and the Twilight of the Antifederalists.

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