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New English Canaan or New Canaan

Containing an Abstract of New England
  • Thomas Morton
1637
Jacob Frederick Stam

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Featured Excerpts

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    Discovery

    How America's First Banned Book Survived and Became an Anti-Authoritarian Icon

    The Puritans outlawed Thomas Morton's "New English Canaan" because it was critical of the society they were building in colonial New England.
    by Colleen Connolly via Smithsonian on October 2, 2023
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    Retrieval

    Lord of Misrule: Thomas Morton’s American Subversions

    When we think of early New England, we picture stern-faced Puritans. But in the same decade that they arrived, Morton founded a very different kind of colony.
    by Ed Simon via The Public Domain Review on November 24, 2020

Associated Excerpts

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Painting of a Puritan family sitting around a table with books.

Read More Puritan Poetry

Coming to love Puritan poetry is an odd aesthetic journey. It's the sort of thing you expect people partial to bowties and gin gimlets to get involved with.
by Ed Simon via The Millions on February 4, 2022
Illustration of Thomas Morton of Merrymount being arrested by Myles Standish of the Plymouth Colony

Pranksters and Puritans

Why Thomas Morton seems to have taken particular delight in driving the Pilgrims and Puritans out of their minds.
by Christopher Benfey via New York Review of Books on February 15, 2021
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