Learn about the period when Puritans, Quakers, and other European immigrant groups arrived in the "New World" with optimistic plans to create utopian societies in this half-hour video from the American Passages series. John Winthrop's "A Model of Christian Charity," Mary Rowlandson's narrative of her captivity among the Narragansett Indians, and William Penn's "Letter to the Lenni Lenape Indians" all participate in a tradition of understanding personal and communal experience as the working of divine will.