What you imply is a common misconception. Puritans did not flee to America in the early modern period because they were religiously persecuted. They fled to America because they were not allowed to religiously persecute others anymore. They were scolded because of their religious intolerance not because of their religion per se.
Puritans in Massachusetts are the reason Rhode Island exists and maintained indepedence when lots of early small colonies got absorbed into what became the other New England states. Roger Williams was like: fuck these guys, they said they wanted freedom of religion and I believed them. So after he obtained the land, he went back to the king to ratify the transfer which lead to borders that weren’t easily dissolved.
Can’t wait to see North Americans come back to Europe to runaway from religious persecution.
Welcome to the Old World my friends !
Sorry, we all were educated by the American school system and thus have no useful skills or knowledge Europeans need.
Also we’re not quite sure where it is.
Find the nearest pond. I hear it’s across it.
Ooops wound up in China
And boy are my arms tired.
What you imply is a common misconception. Puritans did not flee to America in the early modern period because they were religiously persecuted. They fled to America because they were not allowed to religiously persecute others anymore. They were scolded because of their religious intolerance not because of their religion per se.
Puritans. Yes.
I was way too unspecific and have corrected my comment. Thank you for pointing it out.
Depends on if you mean Puritans in Massachusetts, or Quakers in Pennsylvania.
Puritans in Massachusetts are the reason Rhode Island exists and maintained indepedence when lots of early small colonies got absorbed into what became the other New England states. Roger Williams was like: fuck these guys, they said they wanted freedom of religion and I believed them. So after he obtained the land, he went back to the king to ratify the transfer which lead to borders that weren’t easily dissolved.
I was way too unspecific and have corrected my comment. Thank you for pointing it out.
Either you phrased that badly, or people are truly ignorant of history lmao
I’ll take the second one
Probably both.