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The Worming of America, Or, An Answer to the Arraignment of Women
INTRODUCTION
By Free-Grace Publishing
Like all good Awakenings and revolutions, the Great Awakening and the American Revolution started with a good conversation. But when and with whom did that good conversation start? New England Transcendentalism started somewhere, but where and how? The seed of Civil Disobedience was planted by someone in Massachusetts, but by who and why? Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King must have relied on someone with strong shoulders to bring down the English Empire in India and segregated America, but who?
It certainly was not the royal Puritans of Boston and Connecticut, but it was the Separatists of northern England. They carried the torch of the “Good ole cause” across the Atlantic and formed Providence, Rhode Island; Exeter, New Hampshire; Plymouth, Massachusetts; and Southampton, New York. Judeo-Christian historians will say the American War for Independence in 1776 wasn’t class warfare, but the English Civil War was and the French Revolution certainly was… so why not in America also?
The American Separatists weren’t scared of fighting for an Enlightened Commonwealth. Patriots, men like Thomas Paine with his Common Sense pamphlet lit the spark that ignited the American Revolution. So what happened to this American fire, what happened to the First Amendment in America that forbids our government and its taxes from favoring or establishing any religion? What happened to the founding fathers’ advice to exclude all religion from our commonwealth for the common man? What happened to the Declaration of Independence from royal monarchs, standing-armies, and financial debt in America? Why did American politicians violate the distribution of wealth revolution and the commonwealth war for independence? And why did the royal enemy of the Separatists — the religious Puritans or the Judeo-Christian fascists of Boston in 1650 — come to rule both political parties in America 2018.
Here within the Worming of America those questions and philosophical questions from the English Civil War in 1640 are asked once again. Is life for the royal “haves,” or, is life for the commonwealth — “the have-nots?” Questions about debt… is America still a colony for the Bank of England and the Queen via the Federal Reserve? Is America still a colony, a dumb soldier (a Gomer Pyle) for English imperialism and its Empire? Is America a control-fraud democracy? These almost four-hundred-year-old English and American questions sting today in 2018 just as sharply as they did in 1650. Perhaps their attack is even more crippling today because these unanswered questions have been purposely buried by religious politicians in both American political parties. Embarrassing American questions about our standing-armies’ war crimes against humanity and critical questions about the rights and freedoms of women — all go unanswered in 2018. These American questions about the truth and treachery are infected wounds that are still festering – a prisoner’s dilemma. These questions of authority, these lesions are a social gangrene and were brought over from England’s and Europe’s civil wars. These sad questions are not in the spirit of America, and their existence is America’s failure.
Free-Grace Press, in good-faith to our founding fathers and to our future, is proud to re-publish Autumn Leaf’s, The Worming of America, or an Answer to The Arraignment of Women, which is a post-modern historical-fiction study or play on questions of debt, sin, and freedom. As the publisher who found this pamphlet / novel, we have included all 28 original drawings and the following two letters as a Foreword and a Preface . The letters were picked out of many anonymous notes and letters left behind with the novel for the last 368 years. Front letters in this printing encapsulate an anonymous female (Genealogist X) as the Foreword and then a male’s (Professor X) opinion of the novel in the Preface.
In the polemic spirit of Jane Anger’s The Protection for Women we publish The Worming of America as a rebuttal to Joseph Swetnam’s novel published in 1615 titled, The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Forward, and Unconstant or the Vanity of Them, Choose You With a Commendation of Wise, Virtuous and Honest Pleasant For Married Men, Profitable For Young Men, and Hurtful to None.
Our author and illustrator Autumn Leaf, in the spring of 1650 Boston, shares her thoughts, pain, and drawings with you the reader for over four hours on the morning of June 1st. Autumn Leaf is a daughter of “The good ole cause” — the eternal war between the haves and the have nots, as she writes and draws out her case. Autumn’s claim, as it’s been with all civilizations in time, is the malicious and willful betrayal of the common man and their family by politicians and high priests who have enriched themselves well before their citizens and parishioners. Autumn’s religious and civil reformation case is not brought forward as her mentor...
By Free-Grace Publishing
Like all good Awakenings and revolutions, the Great Awakening and the American Revolution started with a good conversation. But when and with whom did that good conversation start? New England Transcendentalism started somewhere, but where and how? The seed of Civil Disobedience was planted by someone in Massachusetts, but by who and why? Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King must have relied on someone with strong shoulders to bring down the English Empire in India and segregated America, but who?
It certainly was not the royal Puritans of Boston and Connecticut, but it was the Separatists of northern England. They carried the torch of the “Good ole cause” across the Atlantic and formed Providence, Rhode Island; Exeter, New Hampshire; Plymouth, Massachusetts; and Southampton, New York. Judeo-Christian historians will say the American War for Independence in 1776 wasn’t class warfare, but the English Civil War was and the French Revolution certainly was… so why not in America also?
The American Separatists weren’t scared of fighting for an Enlightened Commonwealth. Patriots, men like Thomas Paine with his Common Sense pamphlet lit the spark that ignited the American Revolution. So what happened to this American fire, what happened to the First Amendment in America that forbids our government and its taxes from favoring or establishing any religion? What happened to the founding fathers’ advice to exclude all religion from our commonwealth for the common man? What happened to the Declaration of Independence from royal monarchs, standing-armies, and financial debt in America? Why did American politicians violate the distribution of wealth revolution and the commonwealth war for independence? And why did the royal enemy of the Separatists — the religious Puritans or the Judeo-Christian fascists of Boston in 1650 — come to rule both political parties in America 2018.
Here within the Worming of America those questions and philosophical questions from the English Civil War in 1640 are asked once again. Is life for the royal “haves,” or, is life for the commonwealth — “the have-nots?” Questions about debt… is America still a colony for the Bank of England and the Queen via the Federal Reserve? Is America still a colony, a dumb soldier (a Gomer Pyle) for English imperialism and its Empire? Is America a control-fraud democracy? These almost four-hundred-year-old English and American questions sting today in 2018 just as sharply as they did in 1650. Perhaps their attack is even more crippling today because these unanswered questions have been purposely buried by religious politicians in both American political parties. Embarrassing American questions about our standing-armies’ war crimes against humanity and critical questions about the rights and freedoms of women — all go unanswered in 2018. These American questions about the truth and treachery are infected wounds that are still festering – a prisoner’s dilemma. These questions of authority, these lesions are a social gangrene and were brought over from England’s and Europe’s civil wars. These sad questions are not in the spirit of America, and their existence is America’s failure.
Free-Grace Press, in good-faith to our founding fathers and to our future, is proud to re-publish Autumn Leaf’s, The Worming of America, or an Answer to The Arraignment of Women, which is a post-modern historical-fiction study or play on questions of debt, sin, and freedom. As the publisher who found this pamphlet / novel, we have included all 28 original drawings and the following two letters as a Foreword and a Preface . The letters were picked out of many anonymous notes and letters left behind with the novel for the last 368 years. Front letters in this printing encapsulate an anonymous female (Genealogist X) as the Foreword and then a male’s (Professor X) opinion of the novel in the Preface.
In the polemic spirit of Jane Anger’s The Protection for Women we publish The Worming of America as a rebuttal to Joseph Swetnam’s novel published in 1615 titled, The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Forward, and Unconstant or the Vanity of Them, Choose You With a Commendation of Wise, Virtuous and Honest Pleasant For Married Men, Profitable For Young Men, and Hurtful to None.
Our author and illustrator Autumn Leaf, in the spring of 1650 Boston, shares her thoughts, pain, and drawings with you the reader for over four hours on the morning of June 1st. Autumn Leaf is a daughter of “The good ole cause” — the eternal war between the haves and the have nots, as she writes and draws out her case. Autumn’s claim, as it’s been with all civilizations in time, is the malicious and willful betrayal of the common man and their family by politicians and high priests who have enriched themselves well before their citizens and parishioners. Autumn’s religious and civil reformation case is not brought forward as her mentor...
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2 books4 followers"Mother's Day" is the first Free-Grace Press novel answering the misogynist pamphlet written by Joseph Swetnam in 1615 titled: “The Arraignment of Leuud, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women: Or the Vanitie of Them, Choose You Whether: With a Commendation of Wise, Vertuous and Honest Women: Pleasant for Married Men, Profitable for Young Men, and Hurtfull to None.”
Author and illustrator Autumn Leaf, in the spring of 1650 Boston, shares her thoughts, pain, and drawings with you, the reader, for over four hours on a spring morning. Our American journey will be filled with ups and downs / twists and turns — where our own ideas of sin, civilization, religion, debt, and humanity are questioned.
Author and illustrator Autumn Leaf, in the spring of 1650 Boston, shares her thoughts, pain, and drawings with you, the reader, for over four hours on a spring morning. Our American journey will be filled with ups and downs / twists and turns — where our own ideas of sin, civilization, religion, debt, and humanity are questioned.
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July 3, 2020
Interesting read
November 24, 2019
First of all, this was gifted. I started and stopped so many times that unfortunately I often had a hard time really getting into it, and I traveled midway through so there was a period of time where I sort of forgot where I was. This greatly impacted my enjoyment, but was no fault of the book. There were some modern words like metrosexual that also stood out and made me question my understanding of the time period, again, mostly because I put this down so often. I know for some readers this sort of detail is not an issue. This book brought up interesting themes regarding patriarchy, spirituality, bigotry, and American life of that period that really got me thinking and the audiobook is well produced with wonderful performances!
November 26, 2020
audible:I tried,I just could not understand this one.I tried several times.I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review
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