THE PURITANS

How Religious Zealots Built Colonial America and Turned Salem Into a Killing Ground

von Victor G Johnson

248 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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An eighty-one-year-old man was crushed to death under stones for refusing to speak a single word.Few people know that the same men who fled persecution in England built a colony where persecution became the law of the land. This is not the sanitized story of buckled hats and a peaceful harvest feast. This is the real history of a people so certain of their own righteousness that they hanged nineteen of their own neighbors, and what you're about to discover will change how you see one of America's founding myths forever.THE PURITANS traces this astonishing history from Henry VIII's break with Rome to the gallows at Salem, and beyond, into the Great Awakening and the birth of a new nation. You'll walk through the exile that shaped Puritan theology, the banishment of Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson for the crime of independent conscience, and the chilling machinery of spectral evidence that made a single accusation impossible to survive.The hidden truth behind Salem is not that a village went mad overnight. It is that ordinary, educated, devout people convinced themselves that cruelty was righteousness, one sermon and one conviction at a time.Why does this matter now? Because the same pattern, certainty without humility, conviction without self doubt, has never disappeared from human history. It only changes its clothing.Inside this book, you will discover: - The real reason nineteen people died at a forgotten Salem ledge- How a theocracy quietly took root in the name of religious freedom- The women who dared to challenge Puritan authority, and paid for it- Why Harvard, town meetings, and the First Amendment all trace back to this same complicated legacyWhether you're a history lover, a student of early America, or simply someone who has never questioned the version of this story you learned in school, this book will hold your attention from the first page to the last.Ready to uncover the truth behind America's most haunting founding story?Get your copy of The Puritans today and step into the fire.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175983792
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 21.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published