Wellspring of Liberty: How Virginia's Religious Dissenters Helped Win the American Revolution and Secured Religious Liberty

by John A. Ragosta

Before the American Revolution, no colony more assiduously protected its established church or more severely persecuted religious dissenters than Virginia. Both its politics and religion were dominated by an Anglican establishment, and dissenters from the established Church of England were subject to numerous legal infirmities and serious persecution. By 1786, no state more fully protected religious freedom.
This profound transformation, as John...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195388062
• ISBN13: 9780195388060
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"