Excerpt from A History of Connecticut: Its People and Institutions, With 100 Illustrations and MapsGuinea, examine afresh the evolution of town and colonial government, the working of Charles ii's liberal charter, the development of courts, schools, colleges, taxation, insurance, temperance, music, art, literature, industries, penal and reformatory methods, philanthropies and religious freedom, how slavery grew, waned and ceased, mines were Opened, inventions multiplied, looms worked and brickyards poured forth their treasure, how tobacco fields, market gardens, orchards, factories, Yankee notions and tin-peddlers ¿ourished.In touching so many interests, adventurous were the daring that should expect to include in one volume all that deserves saying, and with infallible accuracy, but in this endeavor to describe the place and in¿uence of Connecticut in the onward movement of the country, the author believes that the work invites to an instructive and interesting excursion into a vital and inspiring field.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.