A sweete cup hath rendered many of us wanton and too active”
The Perils and Promises of Liberty in the Providence Plantations, 1636–1656
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16308248 |
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| Authors | Cory D Higdon (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 96 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 121-159 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The New England Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-4866 • E-ISSN: 1937-2213 |
| Publisher | MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1162/tneq_a_00981 |
| OpenAlex | W4377818939 |
| Language | EN |
The intellectual history of religious liberty redounds with complexity. This article chronicles the early decades of the Providence Plantations, what eventually became Rhode Island, as a historical frame of reference for exploring the promises and perils that liberty of conscience wrought in the Narragansett Bay
Archaeology · Bay · Conscience · Environmental ethics · Political science · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Mormonism, Religion, and History · Philosophy · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment
| Highly cited | No |
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