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 W. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1933
In: Church history
Year: 1933, Volume: 2, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-21
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