And if you’re not familiar with #ThomasMorton, I couldn’t recommend this podcast more highly:
#HistoryOnFire
(EPISODE 96: The Wildest Man You Have Never Heard Of”
“The name of Thomas Morton has largely been erased from history. Some people could refer to Morton as a victim of the Puritan brand of cancel culture. The Puritan story became mainstream, and Morton’s name disappeared. This episode fixes this mistake.”
“The Puritans feared that which was undomesticated.” — Jeff Hendricks “Our earliest American heroes were Morton’s oppressors, Endicott, Bradford, Miles Standish. Merry Mount’s been expunged from the official version because it’s the story not of a virtuous utopia but of a utopia of cando