As we have had many classroom discussions on the propaganda spread by the early settlers to their countryman of Europe. Colonial travel brochures and walking billboards they were. Spreading the news of great riches to be had along with the religious freedom they so desired. John Winthrop a Puritan “legacy” immortalized by Cotton Mather. Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony had started with the ideal of “selfless community”. But soon realized that was impossible. Through the internal conflicts within the community by separate factions wanting a certain autonomy to the “brutal war” with the Pequot Indians materialism won out over the Christian belief, “Love your Enemies, do good to them that hate you. Matthew 5.44. (p 179) . The social climate of the time can be fashioned by the phrase made popular by the Rodney King riots “Can’t we all just get along?” to “I’m getting what’s mine and yours!” Unfortunately the indigenous people were the losers on all fronts, their land, their spirituality, their
As we have had many classroom discussions on the propaganda spread by the early settlers to their countryman of Europe. Colonial travel brochures and walking billboards they were. Spreading the news of great riches to be had along with the religious freedom they so desired. John Winthrop a Puritan “legacy” immortalized by Cotton Mather. Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony had started with the ideal of “selfless community”. But soon realized that was impossible. Through the internal conflicts within the community by separate factions wanting a certain autonomy to the “brutal war” with the Pequot Indians materialism won out over the Christian belief, “Love your Enemies, do good to them that hate you. Matthew 5.44. (p 179) . The social climate of the time can be fashioned by the phrase made popular by the Rodney King riots “Can’t we all just get along?” to “I’m getting what’s mine and yours!” Unfortunately the indigenous people were the losers on all fronts, their land, their spirituality, their