So they might be free to worship as they pleased. They were a minority. seeking to escape the oppression of a majority. And so it was over the next 250 years. waves of immigrants from all over the world. but Europe mostly. came to this new land of opportunity where there was freedom. not only religious but economic and political. far beyond the concepts of any Old World society. However. even in the early New World of America. and its Thirteen Colonies. while freedom was a live and growing concept compared with Europe. still much remained to be done in freedoms behalf. The Colonies were still owned in a sense. and certainly subject to the Kings and Queens of England.
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