Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Religious Development in the Province of North Carolina, Vol. 10
The purpose of this paper is two-fold. In the first place the writer seeks to show that the earliest settlers in North Carolina were not religious refugees; that they came to the province not from religious but mainly from economic motives. In the second place he will trace the progress of the struggle for an Establishment, and will show that, begin ning with 17 01 the Episcopal Church was for three-quarters of a century the legal church in North Carolina that, while there was toleration for Dissenters, under the rule of this Establishment, there was not, and from necessity could not be, freedom of conscience and soul-liberty in the absolute sense of those terms that religious freedom, like political freedom, was a growth, and was won only by long and continued struggles.
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