Dyer was an English Quaker who was hanged in Boston after repeatedly defying a law banning Quakers from the colony. Her death and those of the three other “Boston Martyrs” led to the easing of anti-Quaker laws in Massachusetts. Years earlier, in 1637, after Dyer had given birth to a stillborn fetus and buried it privately, the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony had the “monstrous birth” publicly exhumed to serve as evidence of the heresies of what religious doctrine? Discuss
Source: The Free Dictionary