![]() ![]() ![]() Of Plymouth Colony is “rich, troubling, and complex. Of “one of the deadliest wars ever fought on American soil” ( p.xi). 355) Mayflower is the story of what happenedįrom 1608, when the Pilgrims decided to leave England, to 1676, which was the end Years to Lexington and Concord and the Revolution,” says Philbrick. Nation’s history began with the Pilgrims and then leapfrogged more than 150 “In the American popular imagination, the Mayflowerįills in the many holes that the old myths did not cover. Them how to plant corn and whose leader or sachem, Massasoit, helped themĬelebrate the First Thanksgiving.” ( p.xi) Philbrick’s Pilgrims are not the stuff of wide-brimmedīlack hats and gold buckles whose story ended with the First Thanksgiving. Rock and befriended the local Wampanoags, who taught “(as) the Pilgrims (who) sailed to the New World in search of religiousįreedom: how after drawing up the Mayflower Compact, they landed at Plymouth They tend to think of them, as Philbrick writes, Many of the misconceptions that we have about this group of people, but alsoīecause it gives a vivid account of a period of time in American history that ![]() I found the book to be fascinating, not only because it exposes so “Pilgrims”, other than the brief stories that I had heard and taught in myĬlassroom. By Nathaniel Philbrick A Book Review by Rebeccaīecause I felt that I did not know much about the group of people we call the ![]()
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