Word: winterslow
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...Hazlitt, a struggling Unitarian minister, decided to emigrate. Soon Parson Hazlitt established Boston's first Unitarian church. But ill-health and parish problems (he would rather "die in a ditch," he said, than kowtow to his congregation) drove Parson Hazlitt back to Britain. Wrote the future author of Winterslow, then aged eight: "I shall never forget that we came to America. ... I think for my part that it would have been a great deal better if the white people had not found it out. Let the [Indians] have it to themselves, for it was made for them...
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