Did the Pilgrims leave England to flee religious oppression, or to find a place where they could be the oppressors? These and other questions arise as Blake reviews the foundation of each of the 13 colonies and explores the role — if any — of religious belief in establishing each of them. Some of the colonies were founded strictly as commercial enterprises, others for religious reasons, and the discussion ranges from the Anglicans in Virginia to the Quakers in Pennsylvania to the Catholics in Maryland to the Pilgrims in Massachusetts — as well those who fled Massachusetts to form Rhode Island because the Puritans were too strict and those who fled Massachusetts to form Connecticut because the Puritans restricted suffrage too much.
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