History of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647
Author : William Bradford
Publisher :
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 14,20 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Massachusetts
ISBN :
Author : William Bradford
Publisher :
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 14,20 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Massachusetts
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Author : Susan Whitehurst
Publisher : PowerKids Press
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 22,35 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781435836730
In this fascinating book, kids will learn how the Pilgrims survived their first winter in Plymouth, Massachusetts, against incredible odds. The Pilgrims had to eat the food that was left from the voyage since they couldn t plant crops in the frozen ground. Many fell ill and half of the population perished. Although thin and dressed in rags, those who survived were grateful to be alive. Their tale of courage and resilience will inspire young readers.
Author : Thomas Morton
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 18,86 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Indians of North America
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 25,40 MB
Release : 1865
Category : Massachusetts
ISBN :
Author : Martyn Whittock
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 39,2 MB
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1643131796
Leading into the 400th anniversary of the voyage of the Mayflower, Martyn Whittock examines the lives of the “saints” (members of the Separatist puritan congregations) and “strangers” (economic migrants) on the original ship who collectively became known to history as “the Pilgrims.”The story of the Pilgrims has taken on a life of its own as one of our founding national myths—their escape from religious persecution, the dangerous transatlantic journey, that brutal first winter. Throughout the narrative, we meet characters already familiar to us through Thanksgiving folklore—Captain Jones, Myles Standish, and Tisquantum (Squanto)—as well as new ones.There is Mary Chilton, the first woman to set foot on shore, and asylum seeker William Bradford. We meet fur trapper John Howland and little Mary More, who was brought as an indentured servant. Then there is Stephen Hopkins, who had already survived one shipwreck and was the only Mayflower passenger with any prior Amer- ican experience. Decidedly un-puritanical, he kept a tavern and was frequently chastised for allowing drinking on Sundays.Epic and intimate, Mayflower Lives is a rich and rewarding book that promises to enthrall readers of early American history.
Author : Noelle Granger
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 29,58 MB
Release : 2020-03-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781944662455
This book captures and celebrates the grit and struggle of the Pilgrim women, specifically Mary Allerton Cushman, who stepped off the Mayflower in the winter of 1620 to an unknown world - one filled with hardship, danger and death. The Plymouth Colony would not have survived without them. Mary's life is set against the real background of that time. What was a woman's life like in the Plymouth Colony? The Last Pilgrim will show you.
Author : William Bradford
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 47,55 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Massachusetts
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Author : Edward Winslow
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 17,65 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 1557094438
One of America's earliest books and one of the most important early Pilgrim tracts to come from American colonies. This book helped persuade others to come join those who already came to Plymouth.
Author : Carla Gardina Pestana
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 39,81 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 067425080X
An intimate look inside Plymouth Plantation that goes beyond familiar founding myths to portray real life in the settlement—the hard work, small joys, and deep connections to others beyond the shores of Cape Cod Bay. The English settlement at Plymouth has usually been seen in isolation. Indeed, the colonists gain our admiration in part because we envision them arriving on a desolate, frozen shore, far from assistance and forced to endure a deadly first winter alone. Yet Plymouth was, from its first year, a place connected to other places. Going beyond the tales we learned from schoolbooks, Carla Gardina Pestana offers an illuminating account of life in Plymouth Plantation. The colony was embedded in a network of trade and sociability. The Wampanoag, whose abandoned village the new arrivals used for their first settlement, were the first among many people the English encountered and upon whom they came to rely. The colonists interacted with fishermen, merchants, investors, and numerous others who passed through the region. Plymouth was thereby linked to England, Europe, the Caribbean, Virginia, the American interior, and the coastal ports of West Africa. Pestana also draws out many colorful stories—of stolen red stockings, a teenager playing with gunpowder aboard ship, the gift of a chicken hurried through the woods to a sickbed. These moments speak intimately of the early North American experience beyond familiar events like the first Thanksgiving. On the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower landing and the establishment of the settlement, The World of Plymouth Plantation recovers the sense of real life there and sets the colony properly within global history.
Author : David J. Silverman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 40,96 MB
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1632869268
Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony's founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story. In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth's governor, John Carver, declared their people's friendship for each other and a commitment to mutual defense. Later that autumn, the English gathered their first successful harvest and lifted the specter of starvation. Ousamequin and 90 of his men then visited Plymouth for the “First Thanksgiving.” The treaty remained operative until King Philip's War in 1675, when 50 years of uneasy peace between the two parties would come to an end. 400 years after that famous meal, historian David J. Silverman sheds profound new light on the events that led to the creation, and bloody dissolution, of this alliance. Focusing on the Wampanoag Indians, Silverman deepens the narrative to consider tensions that developed well before 1620 and lasted long after the devastating war-tracing the Wampanoags' ongoing struggle for self-determination up to this very day. This unsettling history reveals why some modern Native people hold a Day of Mourning on Thanksgiving, a holiday which celebrates a myth of colonialism and white proprietorship of the United States. This Land is Their Land shows that it is time to rethink how we, as a pluralistic nation, tell the history of Thanksgiving.