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Who does Winthrop imply are "a poor contemptible people" whom God brought to the New World for the purpose of overcoming Satan and "dispossessing him of his kingdom"?

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The allegory is put forward by Governor John Winthrop in the book "The Nature of America from Nature to Experience: The American Search for Cultural Authority by Roger Lundin "

Step-by-step explanation:

Somewhere in the book, the author compares three historical events in America.

Puritan settlers had entertained themselves to a mouse/snake battle. The mouse won. Pastor Wilson explained the occurrence as a typology of the founding of America. According to him, the poor contemptible people are the Native Americans, while the snake was the Europeans.

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