Liberty of Conscience as a Tool of Empire: England and Its Restoration Colonies, 1660-1689
Daniel K. Richter is the Richard S. Dunn Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania.
Religious freedom, the story usually goes, is something that oppressed people fled the “old world” to find in the “new”; liberty grew from a bottom-up struggle. Yet, on the eve of his restoration to the old English throne in 1660, it was none other than King Charles II who promised “liberty to tender Consciences, and that no man shall be disquieted . . . for differences of opinion in matters of Religion.”
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