Tin Horns and Calico
Henry Esmond Christman
Gelesen von Maria Kasper





In the early 19th century, in the Hudson Valley of New York State, hundreds of square miles of land were still the feudal domains of large landowners known as patroons. Such families as the Van Rensselaers, Livingstons, and Schuylers owned the farms and towns in which hundreds of thousands of ordinary people lived and worked. Even the capitol city of New York State, Albany, was encompassed in the private fiefdom of a patroon. On July 4, 1839, in the mountain town of Berne, New York, a mass meeting of tenant farmers issued a declaration of independence, promising: "We will take up the ball of the Revolution where our fathers stopped it and roll it to the final consummation of freedom and independence of the masses." The Anti-Rent War consumed the Catskill Mountain region through the 1840's, leading in the end to the downfall of the patroon system and the democratization of land ownership in New York State. - Summary by Maria Kasper (14 hr 30 min)
Kapitel
Acknowledgements and Introduction | 14:54 | Gelesen von Maria Kasper |
A Landed Aristocracy | 37:11 | Gelesen von Maria Kasper |
Call to Rebellion | 32:02 | Gelesen von Maria Kasper |
Seward Takes the Helderbergs | 47:09 | Gelesen von Maria Kasper |
They Could Not Stand Idle | 33:56 | Gelesen von Maria Kasper |
Justice For Sale | 15:28 | Gelesen von Maria Kasper |
Storms and Tempests | 19:37 | Gelesen von Maria Kasper |
Big Thunder | 48:32 | Gelesen von Maria Kasper |
Political Infiltration | 16:02 | Gelesen von Maria Kasper |
A Price on His Head | 36:20 | Gelesen von Maria Kasper |
Law and Order | 37:22 | Gelesen von Maria Kasper |
King Silas | 14:54 | Gelesen von Maria Kasper |
The Bastard War | 40:08 | Gelesen von Maria Kasper |
In the Good Cause | 42:39 | Gelesen von Maria Kasper |
''For the Land is Mine'' | 23:32 | Gelesen von Maria Kasper |
Lead Penetrates Steele | 55:49 | Gelesen von Maria Kasper |
''Brimful of Wrath and Cabbage'' | 15:52 | Gelesen von Maria Kasper |
Packed Court | 41:40 | Gelesen von Maria Kasper |
Delhi Justice | 54:10 | Gelesen von Maria Kasper |
''November Ides'' | 49:18 | Gelesen von Maria Kasper |
The Goose is Plucked | 45:54 | Gelesen von Maria Kasper |
''The Prisoners! They Come!'' | 26:14 | Gelesen von Maria Kasper |
The End of Manor Aristocracy | 41:24 | Gelesen von Maria Kasper |
Deep in the Land | 39:02 | Gelesen von Maria Kasper |
Songs and Ballads | 41:30 | Gelesen von Maria Kasper |