puritans

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puritans

Roger Williams

founder of Rhode Island
2006
A short biography of seventeenth-century America leader, Roger Williams, who founded the colony of Rhode Island as a haven for those of all religious beliefs.

John Winthrop

colonial governor of Massachusetts
2006
A biography of John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony and describes the political, social, and religious issues that formed the colony, conflict with Native Americans and within the community, and the war with the Pequots.

The scarlet letter

a romance
1983
After the birth of her child in a harsh Puritian 17th century community Hester Prynne is forced to wear a symbol of her disgrace.

Cotton Mather

1980
A biography of the defender of the Salem witchcraft trials and an advocate of smallpox inoculation.

The scarlet letter

2011
Hester Prynne, a young woman in colonial Boston, has an affair with a Puritan minister and bears a daughter out of wedlock. She struggles to keep the identity of her lover a secret while she is condemned to wear a scarlet A embroidered on her clothes.

Hawthorne's The scarlet letter

the manga edition
2009
A manga adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter, " in which Hester Prynne is condemned by Puritan law to wear a scarlet "A, " as punishment for birthing an illegitimate child.

Puritan New England

essays on religion, society, and culture
1977

Sarah Anne Hartford

Massachusetts, 1651
1996
Twelve-year-old Sarah breaks the Sabbath in Puritan New England and faces a moral dilemma when an innocent person is accused in her place.

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