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In reply to the discussion: In Philadelphia, instead of a hotel Bible, this was to be found- [View all]DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)Chances are, if you're African American, your ancestors go back a whole lot farther than the late comers like Trump. You are more "American" than he is (by his "logic" .
My own great, great, etc., uncle was the (very annoying) Puritan John Winthrop, who was appointed the first "governor" of the "new" world a downright fabrication which ignored the very established Native Americans. Thank goodness the creators of the US Constitution came along to minimize the damage created by all the religious nutjobs.
To be fair, my people came down from Winthrop's niece and she publically rebelled against him in court. It was in defense of Anne Hutchinson who preached a very loving "Gospel of grace" as opposed to the Puritans' "Gospel of works (i.e. rules)". Then later, of course, John and his nutjob base accused my great, great aunt of being a witch and she and her family (and her Native American herbal medicine partner) had to flee Massachusetts. Her daughter became a Quaker, another rebel strain in America.
Thank goodness for the other DU members' ancestors who helped my aunt put a stop to the Puritan strain! She and her kind would be dead without all the other resistors!