Origins of Xenophobia The Mark of the Puritans on American Culture, Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony Massachusetts Bay Colony MayflowerCompactThanksgiving Winslow’s Letter City Upon a Hill by John Winthrop Puritans & Yankees by Richard S. Dunn Origins of Puritan Separatism Protestant Reformation Reformation God’s Caress by Charles Lloyd Cohen Intolerance & Conformity Psalms 2:8 Romans 13:2 Williams & Hutchinson Scarlet Letter N. Hawthorne School Upon a Hill by James Axtell Half-WayCovenant Worlds of Wonder by David D. Hall Pequot War King Philip’s War Salem Witch Trials Night Battles by Carlo Ginzburg StratifiedSociety King William’s War Devil in the Shape of Women by Carol F. Karlsen Sovereigns for Sarah by PBS Worlds of Wonder by David D. Hall

“In the name of God…We…solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civill body politick, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enacte, constitute, and frame such just and equall laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meete and convenient for the generall good of the Colonie unto which we promise all due submission and obedience….” “In the name of God…We…solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civill body politick, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enacte, constitute, and frame such just and equall laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meete and convenient for the generall good of the Colonie unto which we promise all due submission and obedience….” - Mayflower Compact, 1620

“Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that we might, after a special manner, rejoice together after we had gathered the fruit of our labors…At which time…many Indians coming amongst us…[including] Massasoit, with some 90 men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted, and they went and killed five deer, which they…bestowed on our governor.” - letter, Edward Winslow, 1622

“…wee must uphold a familiar Commerce together in all meekenes, gentlenes, patience and liberallity, wee must delight in eache other, make others Condicions our owne rejoyce together, mourne together, labour, and suffer together, allwayes haveing before our eyes our Commission and Community in the worke, our Community as members of the same body, soe shall wee keepe the unitie of the spirit in the bond of peace, the Lord will be our God and delight to dwell among us, as his owne people and will commaund a blessing upon us in all our wayes…for wee must Consider that wee shall be as a Citty upon a Hill, the eies of all people are uppon us…But if our heartes shall turne away soe that wee will not obey, but shall be seduced and worshipp other Gods our pleasures, and proffitts, and serve them, it is propounded unto us this day, wee shall surely perishe out of the good Land…” John Winthrop, A City Upon A Hill, 1630

“we must Consider that we shall be as a Citty upon a Hill, the eies of all people are upon us…” “splendid isolation”

“Ask of me, and I shall give thee, the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.” Psalms, 2:8 “Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.” Romans 13:2

“a thing not tolerable nor comely in the sight of God nor fitting” of her “sex” who had “troubled the peace of the commonwealth.” John Winthrop, Examination of Anne Hutchinson, 1637

“Word Written and Preacht is the ordinary Medium of Conversion and Santification” and in order for a person to obtain “these Benefits…it is requisite, that Persons be diligent in Reading and Hearing of it.” Thomas Foxcroft, Cleansing Our Way to Youth, 1719

“It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures…It is therefore ordered, that ever township in this jurisdiction…shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read…” General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony, School Act, Nov. 1647

“care” and “look well to the plants that spring from you, that is, to your children, that they doe not degenerate…If men have a care to propagate the Ordinance and Religion to their children…God will plant them and not roote them up.” John Cotton, God’s Promise to His Plantation, 1630 “Children, Sons, Daughters, and for your Grandchildren to be under the Ordinances of God.” John Wilson, A Seasonable Watchword, 1671

King William’s War

Pequot War,

Origins of Xenophobia The Mark of the Puritans on American Culture, Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony Massachusetts Bay Colony MayflowerCompactThanksgiving Winslow’s Letter City Upon a Hill by John Winthrop Puritans & Yankees by Richard S. Dunn Origins of Puritan Separatism Protestant Reformation Reformation God’s Caress by Charles Lloyd Cohen Intolerance & Conformity Psalms 2:8 Romans 13:2 Williams & Hutchinson Scarlet Letter N. Hawthorne School Upon a Hill by James Axtell Half-WayCovenant Worlds of Wonder by David D. Hall Pequot War King Philip’s War Salem Witch Trials Night Battles by Carlo Ginzburg StratifiedSociety King William’s War Devil in the Shape of Women by Carol F. Karlsen Sovereigns for Sarah by PBS Worlds of Wonder by David D. Hall