The Puritans, restrained in England, shipped themselves off for America, and laid there the foundations of a government which possessed all the liberty, both civil and religious, of which they found themselves bereaved in their native country.
Sherman discusses the migration of Puritans to America seeking religious freedom from oppression in England.
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