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Power corrupts.
Planters was an Elizabethan word for colonist. They were people who planted colonies. They were not immune to the lust for power. The earliest planter in this story is William Brewster, spiritual leader of the Pilgrims. His story is the prologue to the arrival of Samuel Brewster at Cornwallis Township in 1761 to take up lands vacated by the Acadians. But not all the Acadians are gone. We are introduced to the Halifax government's plan for the final solution of the 'Acadian Problem,' and the terrible treatment of men like Richard Bourgeois who are confined to labour camps. Then there is the Planter's reaction to raids by the rebellious New Englanders during the middle to late 1770's, the Protestant dissenter troubles with the ever powerful Anglican Church and Brewster family's quest for the freedom of conscience that was guaranteed in writing by the Governor in Halifax. | ||