1620:Pilgrims Settle
Plymouth. The first Thanksgiving in
America traces its origin to this story. Modern perspectives on European
settlers and American natives should not overlook the hardships that this group
underwent.
After a passage of 66 days, and subsequent journeyings until the
middle of December, they land on the ice-clad rocks of Plymouth, worn out with
suffering, weak and weary from the fatigues of the voyage, poorly armed,
scantily provisioned, surrounded by native strangers, without prospect of human
succor, without the help or favor of their king, with a useless patent, without
assurance of liberty in religion, without shelter, and without means!
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