Cranston Public Library

In 1637, Anne Hutchinson, a forty-six-year-old midwife who was pregnant with her sixteenth child, stood before forty male judges of the Massachusetts General Court, charged with heresy and sedition. In a time when women could not vote, hold public office, or teach outside the home, the charismatic Hutchinson wielded remarkable political power. Her unconventional ideas had attracted a following of prominent citizens eager for social reform. Hutchinson

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"Biographer and novelist Francis looks at the Salem witch hunt of 1692 with fresh eyes, through the story of Samuel Sewall, New England Puritan, Salem trial judge, antislavery agitator, defender of Native American rights, utopian theorist, family man. The second-generation colonists were pitted against the pagan Native Americans and a hostile mother country intent on imposing control. Out of the struggle to maintain unity emerged the forces that drove...

A biography of Massachusetts Bay colonist and Puritan Anne Hutchinson who is remembered as an early proponent of civil rights and religion freedom in colonial America.

Recounts the story of the Puritan woman who was banished from her colony for being outspoken against the religious leaders there.

"Recounts the story of the Puritan woman who was banished from her colony for being outspoken against the religious leaders there." --