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Article: She hath made a disturbance; By daring to preach and teach, Anne Hutchinson posed the first great threat to Puritan government in the New World.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 30, 2004
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Byline: Ron Charles
Early in "Civil Disobedience," Henry David Thoreau wonders why government refuses to "cherish its wise minority." He asks, "Why does it always crucify Christ and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?"
His friend Margaret Fuller might have wryly asked why the martyrs who come to mind are all men. After all, until relatively recently, women were silenced long before their ideas could enjoy even the benefit of being denounced.
How ironic that the first great political crisis of the Puritans' errand in the New World should have erupted over the preaching of a wealthy, well-connected, ...