The Trial of Anne Hutchinson

Liberty, Law, and Intolerance in Puritan New England

Michael P. Winship, Mark C. Carnes, Michael Winship

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781469670782
• eBook ISBN:
  9781469672441
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Storia
• Subtopic: Primordi della storia americana

The Trial of Anne Hutchinson re-creates one of the most tumultuous and significant episodes in early American history: the struggle between the followers and allies of John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and those of Anne Hutchinson, a strong-willed and brilliant religious dissenter. The controversy pushed Massachusetts to the brink of collapse and spurred a significant exodus. The Puritans who founded Massachusetts were poised between the Middle Ages and the modern world, and in many ways, they helped to bring the modern world into being. The Trial of Anne Hutchinson plunges participants into a religious world that will be unfamiliar to many of them. Yet the Puritans' passionate struggles over how far they could tolerate a diversity of religious opinions in a colony committed to religious unity were part of a larger historical process that led to religious freedom and the modern concept of separation of church and state. Their vehement commitment to their liberties and fears about the many threats these faced were passed down to the American Revolution and beyond.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Sin And Salvation
• Introduction: The Trial of Anne Hutchinson
• Maps
• The Game Itself
• Schedule of Classes
• Game Rules
• Historical Background
• Strategies for Thinking Like a Puritan
• Institutions of Massachusetts Puritanism
• Two Paths to Assurance of Salvation
• PRO and CON Arguments
• More Sources and a Warning
• Terms to Memorize
• Immigrants and Indeterminates
• Appendix A: Introduction to the Christian Bible
• Appendix B: Primary Documents
• Appendix C: Recommended Reading