Lidia Wardell walked naked through the Newbury meeting house. She was prosecuted, and publicly whipped for this crime.This event is common historical knowledge. The Rose and the Whip is set in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in May 1663, but tells the entire story of systematic persecution of dissenters, by dissenters. Lidia relates the story of her life, and the series of events that culminated in her decision to take this action in protest of t...
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