What are some different ways Puritans interpreted their experience?
Keep in mind, these were English people who were encountering this quite strange and difficult place—difficult in economic, social, and environmental terms. The encounter with Native Americans shows what they brought with them in terms of expectations and what happened to those expectations. The collection includes a letter by Thomas Weld, a minister who writes back to his former English parish early on, saying, in effect, “Thank God. Here we’re free of all the braggarts and the people who beat up on the Puritans. We’re living in this sort of exalted state of purity. Why aren’t you here to celebrate this with us?” But then, of course, you have others who see a more difficult situation and struggle: “Is it pure? Or is it not pure?” That, too, is a rich theme throughout the book. The title is Puritans in the New World. I had actually wanted to call the book A Wilderness People. There are many meanings to the word “wilderness,” and the word “wilderness” occurs in many of the texts. But my
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