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Charles Sumner: “What numbers of faithful and free-born Englishmen and good Christians have been constrained to forsake their dearest…”

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What numbers of faithful and free-born Englishmen and good Christians have been constrained to forsake their dearest home, their friends and kindred, whom nothing but the wide ocean and the savage deserts of America could hide and shelter from the fury of the bishops!
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner describes the sacrifices made by Englishmen who fled to America for freedom.

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