The Sister of Mary Dyer: The High Price of Freedom: A Biographical Novel

ISBN-13: 9781492803645 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 392 str.

Ann Bell

Opis

Convicted by the Puritans in 1660 for being a Quaker, Mary Dyer faced the gallows on the Boston Commons. Often misunderstood by her husband and six children, she turned her back on those who loved her for the higher principle of protesting the anti-Quaker Laws. What must it have been like to stand beneath the gallows and watch a loved one make the ultimate sacrifice for something you do not fully understand? Mary Dyer's sacrifice helped pave the way for our first amendment rights of the freedom of religion and speech and pointing out the need for the separation of church and state.