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3 pages in length. There is no foolproof way to tell for certain how America would be different today if Thomas Morton had prevailed over William Bradford, however, the extent to which Puritanism plays a significant role in this conjecture leads one to believe that there would have been considerably more tolerance toward – and even acceptance of - Native Americans had the outcome been different. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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extent to which Puritanism plays a significant role in this conjecture leads one to believe that there would have been considerably more tolerance toward - and even acceptance of -
Native Americans had the outcome been different. Inasmuch as Bradford (1912) wholly embraced the tenets of Puritanism, it stands to reason how the Native American population suffered to great extremes
because of his utter disregard for their existence (Anonymous, 1991). Morton (2004), on the other hand, recognized the Indians for the unique individuals they truly were, taking close note
of their myriad cultural activities and ways of life, and acknowledging how - with reverence and respect to the aged, for example - it is "a thing to be admired,
and indeed made a precedent, that a nation yet uncivilized should more respect age than some nations civilized, since there are so many precepts both of divine and humane writers
extant to instruct more civil nations..." (pp. 360-377). The Puritans believed they were wrongly persecuted for wanting to practice their own religious beliefs in England. Settling in America granted
them the freedom they desired for so long and removed them from the bad memories of religious oppression. Bradford (1912) recounts: "Being thus arrived in a good harbor and
brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven, who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all
the perils and miseries thereof, againe to set their feete on the firme and stable earth, their proper element" (p. PG). Yet, after they became established in new colonies,
where their religious freedom was never challenged, they proceeded to cast the same persecution upon others who desired to worship a different faith. Additionally, it was the cultural annihilation
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