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The journal of John Winthrop, 1630-1649 / edited by Richard S. Dunn and Laetitia Yeandle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Winthrop, John, 1588-1649.
- Series:
- John Harvard library
- The John Harvard library
- Standardized Title:
- Journal of the transactions and occurences in the settlement of Massachusetts and the other New England Colonies. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Winthrop, John, 1588-1649--Diaries.
- Winthrop, John.
- Winthrop, John, 1588-1649.
- Diaries.
- Massachusetts--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- Massachusetts.
- History.
- New England--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- New England.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- Abridged edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996.
- Summary:
- This abridged edition of Winthrop's journal, which incorporates about 40 percent of the governor's text, with his spelling and punctuation modernized, includes a lively Introduction and complete annotation. It also includes Winthrop's famous lay sermon, "A Model of Christian Charity", written in 1630. As in the fuller journal, this abridged edition contains the drama of Winthrop's life - his defeat at the hands of the freemen for governor, the banishment and flight of Roger Williams to Rhode Island, the Pequot War that exterminated his Indian opponents, and the Antinomian controversy. Here is the earliest American document on the perpetual contest between the forces of good and evil in the wilderness - Winthrop's recounting of how God's Chosen People escaped from captivity into the promised land. While he recorded all the sexual scandal - rape, fornication, adultery, sodomy, and buggery - it was only to show that even in Godly New England the Devil was continually at work, and man must be forever militant.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674484266
- 0674484274
- OCLC:
- 34788611
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