Download or read book Some Phases of Sexual Morality and Church Discipline in Colonial New England written by Charles Francis Adams and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Some Phases written by Charles Francis Adams and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Some Phases: Of Sexual Morality and Church Discipline in Colonial New England But in the case of history, as with medicine and many other branches of science and learning, there are, as I have already said, many matters which cannot be treated freely in works intended for general circulation, matters which none the less may be, and often are, important and deserving of thorough mention. Certainly they should not be ignored or suppressed. And this is exactly one of the uses to which historical societies are best adapted. Like medical and other similar associations, historical societies are scientific bodies in which all subjects relating to their department of learning both can and should be treated with freedom, so that reference may be made, in books intended for popular reading, to historical - society col lections as pure scientific depositories. It is this course I pro pose to pursue in the present case; and Such material at my disposal as I cannot well use freely in the work upon which I am now engaged, will be incorporated in the present paper, and made accessible in the printed Proceedings of the Society for such general reference as may be desirable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Some Phases of Sexual Morality and Church Discipline in Colonial New England written by Charles Francis Adams and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03-30 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1891 Edition.
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Download or read book Some Phases of Sexual Morality and Church Discipline in Colonial New England written by Charles Adams and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-08 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here may we read the rise and course of a New England town, whose citizens were mostly rude, uncultivated, often perverse men, endued with the ordinary attributes of selfishness, yet controlled and directed by the few more intelligent and broader minds, at whose head for the early generations was the minister and later, the wealthy and educated families, whose fortunes acquired elsewhere supported them in case and moderate affluence on the barren soil. When the throes of revolution came, it is evident how eagerly the humbler classes, who had little to lose, entered into it, and how reluctant and hesitant were the more wealthy; how small a portion of the men went to war with the mother land; and how lightly the expense of the struggle was borne. The mighty change which took place, when the money value of the ledges beneath the hard surface was developed, is clearly set forth, leading forward to conditions which forced the expansion of the town into the city of today, and its preparation for incorporation, by and by, into the larger Boston of the future. "The influence of the Norman element was for the best interests of the whole community. In no New England town was the energy, the enterprise and the formative power of the blooded families, settled among the people, more pronounced than as exemplified by the Quincys, the Apthorps, the Borlands, the Cleverleys and the Vassalls of Braintree. Content to subsist on the product of their farms, with very moderate margins for income, they dwelt as did their humbler neighbors, in every day life and labor; but their wise and masterful direction of public affairs was manifest and paramount at the annual March meeting, where the right of free discussion and vote always existed. In business there was very small traffic, for there was almost no money, and no surplus was raised. The farming barely supported the inhabitants; probably would not, had not proximity to Boston and easy access by water furnished a ready market for the cider, the pumpkins and the beans, spared from slender hoards to supply indispensable wants and the taxes. Small fisheries flourished, and vegetables were exported to Spanish and other tropical, or semi-tropical, ports. Out of this and, as it grew, quitting Braintree, came Colonial commerce and the hardy seamen who conducted it. In this history, that of Braintree was very similar to that of other Massachusetts coast towns; the gentle blood filled the highest political stations, while the deacon, the highest elective church official, came from the plain people. The minister was imported and, we are afraid, very meanly and grudgingly supported. The narrow thoughts and petty lives of the towns-people, the vulgarity of their manners, the lax moral tone and universal intemperance, prevalent in the Colonial period, are well known to all students and searchers of county records. Distilleries were frequent, taverns ubiquitous and every country store had its open bar....All this and much more Mr. Adams shows in a series of delightful chapters, with full record of the ultimate changes effected by the railway and the granite. Such is the wholesome flavor of the antiquary and the political philosopher, which pervades the volume." -The New England Bibliopolist, June, 1892
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Download or read book Sexual Revolution in Early America written by Richard Godbeer and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-02-18 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Alternate Selection of the History Book Club In 1695, John Miller, a clergyman traveling through New York, found it appalling that so many couples lived together without ever being married and that no one viewed "ante-nuptial fornication" as anything scandalous or sinful. Charles Woodmason, an Anglican minister in South Carolina in 1766, described the region as a "stage of debauchery" in which polygamy was "very common," "concubinage general," and "bastardy no disrepute." These depictions of colonial North America's sexual culture sharply contradict the stereotype of Puritanical abstinence that persists in the popular imagination. In Sexual Revolution in Early America, Richard Godbeer boldly overturns conventional wisdom about the sexual values and customs of colonial Americans. His eye-opening historical account spans two centuries and most of British North America, from New England to the Caribbean, exploring the social, political, and legal dynamics that shaped a diverse sexual culture. Drawing on exhaustive research into diaries, letters, and other private papers, as well as legal records and official documents, Godbeer's absorbing narrative uncovers a persistent struggle between the moral authorities and the widespread expression of popular customs and individual urges. Godbeer begins with a discussion of the complex attitude that the Puritans had toward sexuality. For example, although believing that sex could be morally corrupting, they also considered it to be such an essential element of a healthy marriage that they excommunicated those who denied "conjugal fellowship" to their spouses. He next examines the ways in which race and class affected the debate about sexual mores, from anxieties about Anglo-Indian sexual relations to the sense of sexual entitlement that planters held over their African slaves. He concludes by detailing the fundamental shift in sexual culture during the eighteenth century towards the acceptance of a more individualistic concept of sexual desire and fulfillment. Today's moral critics, in their attempts to convince Americans of the social and spiritual consequences of unregulated sexual behavior, often harken back to a more innocent age; as this groundbreaking work makes clear, America's sexual culture has always been rich, vibrant, and contentious.
Download or read book Some Phases of Sexual Morality and Church Discipline written by Charles Francis Adams and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Some Phases of Sexual Morality and Church Discipline" from Charles Francis Adams. Historical editor, politician and diplomat (1807-1886).
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Download or read book Disorderly Women written by Susan Juster and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout most of the eighteenth century and particularly during the religious revivals of the Great Awakening, evangelical women in colonial New England participated vigorously in major church decisions, from electing pastors to disciplining backsliding members. After the Revolutionary War, however, women were excluded from political life, not only in their churches but in the new republic as well. Reconstructing the history of this change, Susan Juster shows how a common view of masculinity and femininity shaped both radical religion and revolutionary politics in America. Juster compares contemporary accounts of Baptist women and men who voice their conversion experiences, theological opinions, and proccupation with personal conflicts and pastoral controversies. At times, the ardent revivalist message of spiritual individualism appeared to sanction sexual anarchy. According to one contemporary, revival attempted "to make all things common, wives as well as goods." The place of women at the center of evangelical life in the mid-eighteenth century, Juster finds, reflected the extent to which evangelical religion itself was perceived as "feminine"—emotional, sensional, and ultimately marginal. In the 1760s, the Baptist order began to refashion its mission, and what had once been a community of saints—often indifferent to conventional moral or legal constraints—was transformed into a society of churchgoers with a concern for legitimacy. As the church was reconceptualized as a "household" ruled by "father" figures, "feminine" qualities came to define the very essence of sin. Juster observes that an image of benevolent patriarchy threatened by the specter of female power was a central motif of the wider political culture during the age of democratic revolutions.
Download or read book History of Braintree Massachusetts 1639 1708 the North Precinct of Braintree 1708 1792 and the Town of Quincy 1792 1899 written by Charles Francis Adams and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early New England written by David A. Weir and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of covenant was at the heart of early New England society. In this singular book David Weir explores the origins and development of covenant thought in America by analyzing the town and church documents written and signed by seventeenth-century New Englanders. Unmatched in the breadth of its scope, this study takes into account all of the surviving covenants in all of the New England colonies. Weir's comprehensive survey of seventeenth-century covenants leads to a more complex picture of early New England than what emerges from looking at only a few famous civil covenants like the Mayflower Compact. His work shows covenant theology being transformed into a covenantal vision for society but also reveals the stress and strains on church-state relationships that eventually led to more secularized colonial governments in eighteenth-century New England. He concludes that New England colonial society was much more "English" and much less "American" than has often been thought, and that the New England colonies substantially mirrored religious and social change in Old England.
Download or read book Customs and Fashions in Old New England written by Alice Morse Earle and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Puritans Behaving Badly written by Monica D. Fitzgerald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the first three generations in Puritan New England, this book explores changes in language, gender expectations, and religious identities for men and women. The book argues that laypeople shaped gender conventions by challenging the ideas of ministers and rectifying more traditional ideas of masculinity and femininity. Although Puritan's emphasis on spiritual equality had the opportunity to radically alter gender roles, in daily practice laymen censured men and women differently – punishing men for public behavior that threatened the peace of their communities, and women for private sins that allegedly revealed their spiritual corruption. In order to retain their public masculine identity, men altered the original mission of Puritanism, infusing gender into the construction of religious ideas about public service, the creation of the individual, and the gendering of separate spheres. With these practices, Puritans transformed their 'errand into the wilderness' and the normative Puritan became female.
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Download or read book History of Matrimonial Institutions written by George Elliott Howard and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 951 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A History of Matrimonial Institutions" is a book based on the author's belief that a thorough understanding of the social evolution of any people must rest upon the broader experience of mankind and that the human family, in particular, with all that the word connotes, is commanding greater attention. Accordingly, in the first part the attempt is made to present a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the literature and the theories of primitive matrimonial institutions, while the second and the third part feature the history of matrimonial institutions in England and in the United States. Volume 1: Analysis of the Literature and the Theories of Primitive Matrimonial Institutions: The Patriarchal Theory Theory of the Horde and Mother-Right Theory of the Original Pairing or Monogamous Family Rise of the Marriage Contract Early History of Divorce Matrimonial Institutions in England: Old English Wife-Purchase Yields to Free Marriage Rise of Ecclesiastical Marriage: The Church Accepts the Lay Contract and Ceremonial Rise of Ecclesiastical Marriage: The Church Develops and Administers Matrimonial Law The Protestant Conception of Marriage Rise of Civil Marriage Volume 2: History of Separation and Divorce under English and Ecclesiastical Law: The Early Christian Doctrine and the Theory of the Canon Law The Protestant Doctrine of Divorce Law and Theory during Three Centuries Matrimonial Institutions in the United States: Obligatory Civil Marriage in the New England Colonies Ecclesiastical Rites and the Rise of Civil Marriage in the Southern Colonies Optional Civil or Ecclesiastical Marriage in the Middle Colonies Divorce in the American Colonies A Century and a Quarter of Marriage Legislation in the United States, 1776-1903 Volume 3: A Century and a Quarter of Divorce Legislation in the United States: The New England States The Southern and Southwestern States The Middle and the Western States Problems of Marriage and the Family: The Function of Legislation The Function of Education...