Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American writer that lived during the 19th century during his life he wrote novels and short stories and focused on themes such as sin, evil, guilty, among others. One of this more famous novels is The Scarlet Letter that is set in Massachusetts Bay Colony in which Puritanism affects all aspects of society tells the story of the young minister Dimmesdale and a woman called Hester Prynne as they had a baby, but knowing it was immoral Hester decides to keep the secret about who is the father of the baby. Because of this she is required to wear a scarlet "A" that means adulterous and later imprisoned, meanwhile the guilty consumes the minister who cannot decide between telling the truth or letting Hester assume the guilty and keep the secret. Thus, the novel of Nathaniel Hawthorne that tells the story of a young minister who is destroyed by secret guilt is The Scarlet Letter.
The delegates to the Constitutional Convention finally agreed the Three Fifths Compromise, that slaves should be counted at three fifths of their real number.
