Common Law and the Rhetoric of Social Exclusion in Early New England
by
Nan Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
A community is defined not only by inclusion but also by exclusion. Seventeenth-century New England Puritans, themselves exiled from one society, ruthlessly invoked the law of banishment from another: over time, hundreds of people were forcibly excluded from this developing but sparsely settled colony....