Kingdom of Matthias

by

Paul E. Johnson and Sean Wilentz

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William Leete Stone Character Analysis

William Leete Stone is a newspaper editor who briefly lives with Matthias in a boarding house in New York City. Stone is alarmed when Matthias tells everybody in the boarding house that he’s a prophet. Some years later, Stone joins forces with Benjamin and Ann Folger to write a book about Matthias’s cult. The book largely blames the cult’s Black household servant Isabella Van Wagenen for its questionable activities, even though the Folgers were most responsible for funding and running the cult. Stone uses Matthias’s story to warn against the dangers of religious extremism, emphasizing how it can corrupt innocent people like the Folgers.

William Leete Stone Quotes in Kingdom of Matthias

The Kingdom of Matthias quotes below are all either spoken by William Leete Stone or refer to William Leete Stone . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Epilogue Quotes

I have got the truth and I know it, and I will crush them with the truth.

Related Characters: Isabella Van Wagenen (Sojourner Truth) (speaker), Robert Matthews (Prophet Matthias), Benjamin Folger , Ann Folger , Catherine Galloway , William Leete Stone
Page Number: 167-168
Explanation and Analysis:

Isabella confirmed all of [Vale’s] hunches about the Kingdom’s sexual arrangements, and much more besides. […] He was well aware that the black servant Isabella’s word, on its own, would not stand up against the Folgers’, given public prejudices. And so whenever possible, he supplemented her narrative with “white evidence” from his interviews and from the public record.

Related Characters: Robert Matthews (Prophet Matthias), Isabella Van Wagenen (Sojourner Truth) , Benjamin Folger , Ann Folger , William Leete Stone , Gilbert Vale
Page Number: 169
Explanation and Analysis:
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William Leete Stone Quotes in Kingdom of Matthias

The Kingdom of Matthias quotes below are all either spoken by William Leete Stone or refer to William Leete Stone . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Patriarchy, Family, and Society Theme Icon
).
Epilogue Quotes

I have got the truth and I know it, and I will crush them with the truth.

Related Characters: Isabella Van Wagenen (Sojourner Truth) (speaker), Robert Matthews (Prophet Matthias), Benjamin Folger , Ann Folger , Catherine Galloway , William Leete Stone
Page Number: 167-168
Explanation and Analysis:

Isabella confirmed all of [Vale’s] hunches about the Kingdom’s sexual arrangements, and much more besides. […] He was well aware that the black servant Isabella’s word, on its own, would not stand up against the Folgers’, given public prejudices. And so whenever possible, he supplemented her narrative with “white evidence” from his interviews and from the public record.

Related Characters: Robert Matthews (Prophet Matthias), Isabella Van Wagenen (Sojourner Truth) , Benjamin Folger , Ann Folger , William Leete Stone , Gilbert Vale
Page Number: 169
Explanation and Analysis: