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A Distant Heritage Mary Knysh make this book a vitalHistorians often rely on a handful of unusual cases to illustrate the absence of free speech in the colonies such as that of Richard Barnes, who had his arms broken and a hole bored through his tongue for seditious words against the governor of Virginia. In this definitive and accessible work, Larry Eldridge convincingly debunks this view by revealing surprising evidence of free speech in early America. Using the court records of every American colony