The Churches as Moral Courts of the Frontier

We Americans have been inclined to over-idealize the frontier period of our history, and have been perhaps too ready to resent any implication of unwonted moral laxity among the pioneers. It is now universally known that the great majority of the people who colonized the Atlantic seaboard came from...

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Main Author: Sweet, William Warren 1881-1959 (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge University Press [1933]
In: Church history
Year: 1933, Volume: 2, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-21
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