Banished: Common Law and the Rhetoric of Social Exclusion in Early New England by Nan Goodman

Banished: Common Law and the Rhetoric of Social Exclusion in Early New England

Nan Goodman

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A community is defined not only by inclusion but also by exclusion. Seventeenth-century New England Puritans, themselves exiled from one society, ruthlessly invoked the law of banishment from another: over time, hundreds of people were forcibly ex...

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