Pilgrims : New World settlers & the call of home
This book uncovers what might seem to be a dark side of the American dream: the New World from the viewpoint of those who decided not to stay. At the core of the volume are the life histories of people who left New England during the British Civil Wars and Interregnum, 1640-1660. More than a third of the ministers who had stirred up emigration from England deserted their flocks to return home. The colonists' stories challenge our perceptions of early settlement and the religious ideal of New England as a "City on a Hill." America was a stage in their journey, not an end in itself.-publisher's description
Print Book, English, ©2007
Yale University Press, New Haven [Conn.], ©2007
Nonfiction
xii, 316 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
9780300117189, 9780300164053, 0300117183, 030016405X
122337947
Prologue: the story of Susanna Bell
Exodus from England
The creation of the New England way
Unsettled spirits
A fresh gale towards Europe
Parting from America
A tale of three nations
The New England way in England
Journey's end
Appendix 1 : Pilgrims, Puritans, migrants
Appendix 2 : New England settlers who returned home, 1640-1660
Appendix 3 : New England's ministers: the first generation
Appendix 4 : Preachers from New England