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This post from 2019 is well worth revisiting. Far too few Americans know American history, and far fewer understand the lessons that arise from it. The lesson highlighted herein is one of the most important history has to offer us in 2020.
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Guest Post by Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Settlement, as presented primarily in his account of the adventures of the Pilgrims titled Of Plymouth Plantation, and paraphrased by B. Nathaniel Sullivan
A PDF copy of this article is available here.
1623
Our situation was dire—a matter of life and death. For two years we had sought to produce our food on the land we had found in the New World. Thankfully we were able to forge an alliance with the Indian tribe nearby. Also, God gave us a special Indian friend in Squanto, who lived among us and helped us in ways we couldn’t have imagined.1
Some background information might help you better understand our situation. Our congregation of believers left England and moved to Holland so we would be able to worship God freely; then, after 11 or so years, we felt compelled to leave Holland because we were concerned about how the culture was affecting our children. We departed for the New World in 1620, and later in the year than we ideally would have due to circumstances beyond our control. Our arrival here came after a rough ocean crossing on the Mayflower. We landed at Cape Cod in the New World on November 11, 1620. Before we even began to explore the land, we knew there was an important matter of business we had to address.
To read this article in its entirety, please go here.
Copyright © 2019 by B. Nathaniel Sullivan. All rights reserved.
top image credit: Landing of the Pilgrims by Michele Felice Cornè, circa 1805, displayed in the White House
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