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Back to SearchThe Catholic Refuge - A Plantation of Trade
Season 4 Episode 6
In early Maryland, the money in a man's pocket was a leaf. Tobacco was the colony's currency — wages, debts, fines, and the minister's salary all rec…
5 years, 2 months ago
The Catholic Refuge - The Tayac
Season 4 Episode 5
In 1634 — the founding year of Maryland — the ruler of the most powerful native people on the Potomac was murdered by his own brother. The dead man, …
5 years, 2 months ago
The Catholic Refuge - Assent
Season 4 Episode 4
In 1638, the colony of Maryland had no laws at all. Lord Baltimore had sent a code across the ocean; the assembly of freemen voted it down. The freem…
5 years, 2 months ago
The Catholic Refuge - Give No Offense
Season 4 Episode 3
In November 1633, two ships slipped away from the English coast carrying the first settlers of Maryland — and three Catholic priests who had to be sm…
5 years, 2 months ago
The Catholic Refuge - The Woeful Country
Season 4 Episode 2
He had been one of the most powerful men in England — Secretary of State to King James, knighted, wealthy, trusted at the King's right hand. Then Geo…
5 years, 2 months ago
The Catholic Refuge - A Kind of Treason
Season 4 Episode 1
In the small hours of November 5th, 1605, a search party found a man named Guy Fawkes in a cellar beneath the House of Lords, standing among thirty-s…
5 years, 2 months ago
The Wages of the Covenant - The Dominion
Season 3 Episode 6
The charter was gone — annulled by a London court in 1684. But a charter is paper, and for a year and a half the loss was an abstraction. This episod…
5 years, 2 months ago
The Wages of the Covenant - The Charter
Season 3 Episode 5
In the years after King Philip's War, the Massachusetts Bay Colony reformed itself with everything it had. The ministers had read the war as God's ju…
5 years, 2 months ago
The Wages of the Covenant - The War
Season 3 Episode 4
King Philip's War lasted fourteen months. More than half of the ninety English towns in southern New England were attacked. Twelve were destroyed. Th…
5 years, 4 months ago
The Wages of the Covenant - The Children of the Peace
Season 3 Episode 3
The forty-year peace was a friendship.
The treaty signed in 1621 between Massasoit and the Plymouth Pilgrims was a transactional document at the momen…
5 years, 4 months ago