In September 1620, a Puritan faction known as the English Separatist Church set out from England on a three-masted merchant ship, the Mayflower, on a quest for religious freedom and they set a spiritual foundation of what would one day become America.

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In a short span of time in the harsh wilderness of the northeast, John Winthrop, John Endecott, John Cotton, Anne Hutchison and Roger Williams begin to a develop a decidedly democratic and religious vision for life and freedom in the New England colonies.

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Banished from Massachusetts, Roger Williams flees into the wilderness, where he founds Rhode Island and introduces the concept of “Soul Liberty,” the bedrock principle that the religious beliefs of Americans cannot be dictated by a government or official church.

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In 1688, the Reverend John Wise led a little-remembered rebellion against the Dominion of New England which served as a forerunner of the American Revolution nearly 90 years later. Meanwhile a similar “Glorious Revolution” is taking place in Great Britain.

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Abigail Adams narrates some of the most iconic moments of the American Revolution as tensions mount between the American colonies and the British with the Stamp Act, the Boston Massacre, and the Boston Tea Party.

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Paul Revere was a colonial Boston silversmith and patriot whose famous midnight ride provided a needed warning to colonists about an impending British attack which gave the local colonial militia a key advantage during the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

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