#  MHS: The Roasting of Hugh Peter: Satire and Politics in Early America 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 15, 2017** 

 12:00PM - 01:00PM EST 

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 **1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA**  



 

 



 

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 **Adrian Weimer**, Providence College

 Accused regicide and former pastor of Salem, Massachusetts, Hugh Peter was the target of colorful satirical ballads and mock-sermons in the mid-seventeenth century. This presentation will explore the ways Royalists attacked Peter as a way of mocking the culture of puritanism, expressing anxieties about the very existence of puritan colonies.



 

 



 

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