They Shall Not Be Silent: The Boston Martyrs and the Death of the Puritan Dream

In the summer of 1656, two Quaker women stepped off a ship in Boston harbour and walked into a world that would spend the next five years trying to destroy them. What followed was one of the most consequential confrontations in American religious history: a covenant community of absolute theological certainty against four itinerant missionaries who refused, at the cost of their lives, to accept it...