The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country
Chapter 8
Puritans and Education--Provision for Public Schools--Puritan Sincerity--Effect of Intolerance on the Community--Quakers Harshly Persecuted--The Salem Witchcraft Tragedy--History of the Delusion-- Rebecca Nourse and Other Victims--The People Come to their Senses-- Cotton Mather Obdurate to the Last--Puritan Morals--Comer's Diary-- Rhode Island in Colonial Times, 68