Puritans

1.Archbishop Bancroft deprived a considerable number of puritan clergymen.

班克罗夫特大主教革除了许多清教徒牧师。

2.The manorialism, Puritan culture, bloody slavery and the Civil War, which was looked upon as a catastrophe, were rich soil for development of South Gothic novel.

南方庄园制度、清教文化特别是血腥奴隶制以及南方人看来是一场大灾难南北战争是南方哥特小肥沃土壤。