RG ST 71 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Tituba, Bors, Pueblo Revolt
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Talked about in study of polls and censuses where religion is often aimed to be defined. Preternatural excrescence: physical abnormality looked for to spot a witch (look back to end of lecture 4 and cotton mather) Maps are more prescriptive than descriptive -- they tell you what they want you to know. Maps served as primary tools in a colonizing and civilizing effort. Maps reflected the political drive to maintain territory, suggesting an inherent theological tension in colonists attitudes. Indian villages were mapped, showing that puritan neighbors were not afraid of indians. Also showed the results of series of indian wars and attempted land grabs by white colonists. Puritan leaders grew very worried about the diverse thinking going on within their lands (wanted to stay united in thought -- enforcing homogeneity) British started to employ a frontier of exclusion along the east coast out of fear for new ideas spreading into colonies from indian villages.
