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“The most important reason I am concentrating on Winthrop and his shipmates in the 1630s is that the country I live in is haunted…

— Sarah Vowell

“To be sure, the church has greatly assisted the colonialist; backing his ventures, helping his conscience, contributing to the acceptance of colonization even by…

— Albert Memmi

“This is a sappy way to put it, but the Winthrop who warns Williams is the Winthrop I fell in love with, the Winthrop…

— Sarah Vowell

“When Nelson Rockefeller, governor of New York and one of the last of the WASP aristocrats, undertook a vast expansion of his state’s university…

— William Deresiewicz

“Colonial America was not settled out of a search for religious liberty, but it stumbled onto that principle just in time.”

— Steven K. Green

“Religious disintegration began with colonization.”

— Eduardo Galeano

“some British settlers of colonial America carried across the sea Puritan, biblical, scientific, and Aristotelian rationalizations of slavery and human hierarchy.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Carl Bridenbaugh’s study of colonial cities, Cities in the Wilderness, reveals a clear-cut class system. He finds: The leaders of early Boston were gentlemen…

— Howard Zinn

“Until then he had believed they justified colonialism: Christianity, civilization, and commerce.”

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“After his own experience in Oxford, he knew that the Christian faith was not about how one behaved but about what one believed, and…

— Eric Metaxas

“The haphazard unfolding of religious toleration described above occurred chiefly by default (and in New York, to enhance a commercial environment), not to promote…

— Steven K. Green

“In other words, after Winthrop has acquired all his butter firkins, food stirrers, and beer along with six dozen candles, twenty thousand biscuits, and…

— Sarah Vowell