Mercies in the American Desert Deb Jeffries She was an active participant

She was an active participant in many of the social and political movements that influenced nineteenth century abolition

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that the two traditions of East and West can at last understand one another and begin to work together to heal a broken world

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Mercies in the American Desert Deb Jeffries She was an active participantReflecting on the Salem witch trials, Puritan minister Cotton Mather cautioned his flock against the moral temptations of the unknown wild, located in what he termed an ""American desert."" Today, more than three hundred years later, we understand that our troubles have their origins not in some ambiguous beyond; rather, they are of our own making. Benjamin Landry's Mercies in the American Desert attempts a clear eyed reckoning with the people and the