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Nonfiction Audiobook Review: The Pioneers

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Title: The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West Author: David McCullough. Read by John Bedford Lloyd Publication Info: Simon & Schuster Audio, 2019. 10hrs 23 min. Source: Library digital resources   Publisher’s Blurb: As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. A Massachusetts minister named Manasseh Cutler was instrumental in opening this vast territory to veterans of the Revolutionary War and their families for settlement. Included in the Northwest Ordinance were three remarkable conditions: freedom of religion, free universal education, and most importantly, the prohibition of slavery. In 1788 the first band of pioneers set out from New England for the Northwest Territory u