In 1695, John Miller, a clergyman traveling through New York, found it appalling that so many couples lived together without ever being married and that no one viewed "ante-nuptial fornication" as anything scandalous or sinful. Charles Woodmason, an Anglican minister in South Carolina in 1766, descr
The American Revolution within America
โ Scribed by Merrill Jensen
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Year
- 1974
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 238
- Category
- Library
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