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Book · 1651 · Nonfiction

Of Plymouth Plantation

William Bradford
Dover Publications · 256 pages
★ 5.8 editorial score

Plymouth's governor kept the record of his colony year by year, calling the coast a hideous and desolate wilderness. The early chapters carry the founding myth, the closing ones turn to lament.

Genre
HistoryReligious history
Subject
Colonial AmericaPuritanismAmerica's founding
Setting
Massachusetts
Time
1651Depicts Colonial AmericaDepicts 17th century

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Quote · 1949

“Puritanism—The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

H.L. Mencken
Quote · 1866

“The Puritans, who nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedom, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoying his.”

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