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"Debt made everything possible -- yet it was a drag on obtaining independence, authority, respect, liberty?"

Gaskill is proving his chops as a historian with an amazingly compelling description of the founding of Springfield. Early colonial New England is a surprisingly dynamic and religiously diverse (as long as you're only talking about flavors of Protestants) place in the 1640s. If nothing else just this first chapter is enlightening.