A Naked Sign: Being the Journal of Deborah Wilson - Softcover

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The New England Puritans saw Quakers as a serious threat to their godly community almost as soon as the first members of the sect reached their shores. They imposed harsh sanctions on persons attending Quaker “conventicles” or proclaiming the Quaker message—including whipping at the cart’s tail, tongue-boring. and even capital punishment. Women were usually stripped to the waist to receive their public whippings. To protest this perceived immodesty, some Quaker women took to appearing naked in public, even within the Puritan places of worship. In this expansive historical novel, Pharamond Weimer—a New England-based antiquary and genealogist with an interest in Rhode Island families—imagines the journal of 17th-century quaker Deborah (Buffum) Wilson, who infamously walked naked through the streets of Salem, Massachusetts, in June 1662 to protest the persecution of members of her sect by the Puritan theocracy. In Weimer’s fictional vision, Deborah’s vibrant and pleasure-seeking nature is presented in vivid and explicit detail, reflecting the unabashed love of life that animated her being.

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