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Mary and William Dyer : Quaker light and Puritan ambition in early New England

Johan Winsser (Author)
Mary Dyer is widely esteemed as one of the "Boston martyrs"--Four Quakers hanged by the Massachusetts Bay Colony between 1659 and 1661. When she returned to Boston in 1660, after having been banished twice from Massachusetts, she committed an act of deliberate civil disobedience that cost her her life, led to the downfall of the puritan government, and advanced the fundamental principles of freedom of conscience and expression -- Publisher's description

Print Book, English, 2017
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, North Charleston, South Carolina, 2017