... fate of a tiny band of Pilgrims who fled England for Holland and then for the New World. Also writing this type of history was Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts and Cotton Mather. Mary Rowlandson's experience with her own captivity contained the same providential theme. In the eighteenth century, as the European Enlightenment came to America, history took on a secular and naturalistic cast ... ...

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... Williams, saw captivity as a spiritual journey; a punishment for sins and the destiny assigned them by God. It was their duty to endure, and by doing so they pleased Him. As Cotton Mather intimated to Reverend Williams in correspondence, "You are carried into the land of the Canadians for your good."1 Children, on the other hand were more often left in the care ... ...

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