Edmund S. Morgan's The Puritan Dilemma

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Edmund S. Morgan wrote The Puritan Dilemma, which focused on John Winthrop’s life, and his experience establishing the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It discusses the ups and downs, and the controversy surrounding Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams around the same time. The Puritans seemed to seek the approval of their citizens, but they excommunicated Hutchinson and Williams for voicing their opinion. Of course, the Puritans also could not separate church from state, so politics and religion were one in the same. This is what caused much of the issues surrounding Williams and Hutchinson, and Williams later started a colony in Rhode Island that separated church and state.
Winthrop was a fairly religious man, and he was raised that way his whole
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