also comparable to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s in that Bradford describes the puritans as calm, civil people. Bradford believes Puritans are only searching for religious freedom. Bradford describes puritans as people who were “hunted and persecuted on every side, so as their former afflictions were but as flea-bitings in comparison of these which now came upon them. For some where taken and clapped up in prison…and watched day and night” (Bradford 123). In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s writing we see puritans described…
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