![]() ![]() They also believed that Native Americans, who did not prescribe to Christianity, were regarded as the children of Satan. Puritans subscribed to an inflexible doctrine that offered little room for error for example, sinful thoughts and dreams were considered as harmful as actually committing a sin. ![]() They became the dominant Christian sect in New England at the time, although the Quakers and Anabaptists, other Christian groups, also had sizeable communities. The Puritans broke away from the Anglican Church in England, landing at Plymouth Rock and settling both Plymouth and Boston. Puritan New England: Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote “Young Goodman Brown” in 1835 but set the story in Puritan New England during the late 17th century. ![]()
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