Unnamed Baptist and Methodist Settlers

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3291
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Unnamed Baptist and Methodist Settlers
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Unnamed Baptist and Methodist Settlers
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
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In The Town Charles explains the origins of Yoknapatawpha's white population's basic moral code by referring to the past. Their ancestors, he says, "hadn't quitted home and security for a wilderness in which to find freedom of thought as they claimed and oh yes, believed, but to find freedom in which to be incorrigible and unreconstructible Baptists and Methodists; not to escape from tyranny as they claimed and believed, but to establish one" (321).