Young Goodman Brown

What was young Goodman’s initial reaction toward his family’s role in the persecution of Quakers and Indians?

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The Puritan intolerance of Quakers occurred during the second half of the seventeenth century. Indians were seen as evil. Despite this , Goodman Brown felt his family was not violent:

"Too far, too far!" exclaimed the goodman, unconsciously resuming his walk. "My father never went into the woods on such an errand, nor his father before him. We have been a race of honest men and good Christians, since the days of the martyrs. And shall I be the first of the name of Brown, that ever took this path and kept--"