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...prophetic idea was to recruit religious outcasts--Englishmen who longed to put an ocean between them and the established Anglican Church. Some radical Protestants, known as Dissenters, had already fled to Holland. The Virginia Co. lured some Dissenters over and opened negotiations with others. One boatload of Pilgrims, blown north, landed in Plymouth, Mass., in 1620. Religious pluralism in British North America would suffer many backtracks and false starts (Virginia would develop its own Anglican establishment as time passed), but the first step was taken in Jamestown...
...from racism to lung cancer, of which the colonists were unaware. Yet they survived. Key aspects of the Jamestown template--chiefly the lures of religious liberty, private ownership and a measure of self-rule--guaranteed that British North America would be populous enough to withstand challenges from France and Holland and, finally, the power grabs of the mother country...
...Staff writer Laurence H. M. Holland can be reached at lholland@fas.harvard.edu...
...Crimson in February that serious discussion of calendar reform will have to wait for the completion of General Education reforms. University Spokesman John D. Longbrake had no response from the Corporation when contacted about Petersen’s letter late last night. —Laurence H. M. Holland contributed to the reporting of this story. —Claire M. Guehenno contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Christian B. Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Laurence H. M. Holland can be reached at lholland@fas.harvard.edu...