The Trial of Anne Hutchinson: Liberty, Law, and Intolerance in Puritan New England

The Trial of Anne Hutchinson re-creates one of the most tumultuous and significant episodes in early American history: the struggle between the followers and allies of John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and those of Anne Hutchinson, a strong-willed and brilliant religious dissenter. The controversy pushed Massachusetts to the brink of collapse and spurred a significant exodus. The Puritans who founded Massachusetts were poised between the Middle Ages and the modern world, and in many ways, they helped to bring the modern world into being. The Trial of Anne Hutchinson plunges participants into a religious world that will be unfamiliar to many of them. Yet the Puritans' passionate struggles over how far they could tolerate a diversity of religious opinions in a colony committed to religious unity were part of a larger historical process that led to religious freedom and the modern concept of separation of church and state. Their vehement commitment to their liberties and fears about the many threats these faced were passed down to the American Revolution and beyond.

Author: Michael P. Winship, Mark C. Carnes
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 07/01/2022
Pages: 116
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.25d
ISBN13: 9781469670782
ISBN10: 146967078X
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | Colonial Period (1600-1775)
- Biography & Autobiography | General

About the Author
Michael Winship is professor of history at the University of Georgia. Mark C. Carnes is professor of history at Barnard College.