puritans

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puritans

The Salem Witchcraft Trials

would you join the madness?
It is winter in Salem Village, Massachusetts in 1692. Some teenage girls may be suffering from mysterious afflictions. They accused certain townspeople of being witches. What would you do? Would you believe the girls? Would you join the madness?.

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.

Understanding the Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

"Discusses the creation and execution of the Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the early days of the United States"--.

The scarlet letter

a romance
2003
Hester Prynne, a young wife in colonial New England, is sentenced to wear a scarlet "A" on her clothing, as a public acknowledgement of her sin of adultery.

The scarlet letter

a romance
2016
Hester Prynne, condemned by Puritan law to wear the scarlet letter "A" for adultress, endures her ostracism with dignity, while her lover is tormented by the burden of an unexposed sin.

The Puritan dilemma

the story of John Winthrop
2007

The scarlet letter

2006
Tells the story of Hester Prynne, a young Puritan woman who has violated the laws of Colonial Boston. As punishment she is ordered to wear the Scarlet Letter of an adulterer for the rest of her life.

Sailing to America

colonists at sea
1998
Describes the 1633 voyage of the ship Treadwell carrying Puritans and colonists from England to the New World.

A pilgrim who made progress

the life story of John Bunyan, author of The pilgrim's progress
1994
The Life Story of John Bunyan, Author of the Pilgrim's Progress.

The scarlet letter

1992
Presents an abridged retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel "The Scarlet Letter," in which Hester Prynne, a wife and mother in seventeenth-century New England, is condemned by Puritan law to wear a scarlet "A" after being judged guilty of adultery.

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