Positive and Negative Freedom in Puritan Society

It was very interesting to see just how much the Puritan dream that Jim Cullen describes in chapter 1 of the American Dream subscribes the concept of positive freedom. He states that to the Puritan's "freedom involved a willing surrender to the will of the Lord" (Cullen 21). This sentiment falls perfectly in line with the concept of positive freedom. Strangely the harsh rule of puritan society is both the reason that modern America sees their society as unfree, and the Puritans thought they had founded a place to be free.