Mises Daily
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Murray N. Rothbard
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[This article is excerpted from Conceived in Liberty , chapter 36.] What, in all this time, was happening to Plymouth, the mother colony of all New England? Succinctly, it was rapidly and irretrievably declining. As we have seen, its fur trade had virtually disappeared by 1640. And for the next 20 years, only further decline ensued. By the