Colleen Connolly writes: “Just seven years after the Puritans’ arrival [in the Americas], an Anglican lawyer named Thomas Morton published a book that threatened the young colony and its residents’ covenant with God. New English Canaan, a three-part text published in Amsterdam in 1637, includes a brief section at the end that offers a withering critique of the Puritans and the society they were building, including their treatment of Native Americans. Puritans outlawed the text in their colonies, but the book has cropped up continuously over the last four centuries.”