Reposted by Mark Tooley
A timely conversation amid America’s Thanksgiving: the pilgrims were ultra-Protestant separatists whose persecution in England foreshadowed the parliamentary Puritan revolt against King Charles I and the established church. @markdtooley.bsky.social interviews Oxford historian Jonathan Healey.
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Thanksgiving & England's Civil War
American democracy and religious freedom were the largely unintentional fruits of what emerged from Britain's civil war and the compromises that followed.