The Puritans of popular memory are dour figures, characterized by humorless toil at best and witch trials at worst.
Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination reveals how the.
They fervently embraced the idea that Puritans were in fact pioneers of revolutionary dissent and invoked their name and ideas as part of their antislavery crusade.
Antebellum American abolitionists, however, would be shocked to hear this. "Puritan" is an insult reserved for prudes, prigs, or oppressors.
The Puritans of popular memory are dour figures, characterized by humorless toil at best and witch trials at worst