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>Cromwell and the extreme Protestant Taliban were gone; They weren't totally gone, many moved west to pollute a different continent.
by dsfyu404ed 7y ago
>Cromwell and the extreme Protestant Taliban were gone;
They weren't totally gone, many moved west to pollute a different continent.
- crooked-v 7y agoFor context, see the 'Great Ejection' starting in 1662: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Ejection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Ejection I can't find any hard numbers on emigration to America because of this, but it definitely restarted a wave of Puritan emigration that had mostly stopped when Cromwell took power.
- pjmlp 7y agoThat lasts to this day, given how puritan America behaves versus Caribbean, South America and Europe.
- krakatau1 7y agothe thing is alot of Cavaliers escaped to Virginia and during the Restoration Presbyterians and Independents fled to New England. New England, with its Puritan settlement, had supported the Commonwealth and the Protectorate. The two groups repeated their conflict two hundred years later in American Civil war