TemplarKormac
Political Atheist
- Mar 30, 2013
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No we didn't. Holland escorted my ancestor to the docks for his religion and said, "Don't come back." He didn't. Now, you can't contain his family's progeny in 9 thousand page volumes. He had a dozen sons and daughters.
They then proceeded to genocide the shit out of the Native Americans who saved them from well-deserved starvation.
You're funny. First, they had to work to pay for their passage to the New World for a number of years. Then they had to work to save for buying a piece of property. Then they had to wait till they could afford to pay for a family. The British cleared the areas of Indians with their militia. The colonists were recruited to do slave labor just to get by.
Genocided the Native Americans? That's a scream. They intermarried with the Native Americans when white women died in childbirth and of diseases they had no immunity to. It worked both ways, because a lot of the natives died off due to no immunity to diseases Europeans brought over. Somehow, we all just bungled along, making the British rich and putting up with their "no representation for colonists in the King or Queen's court" bullshit.
But aren't you kind of proving my point? If your ancestors descendents can be detailed in 9000 pages of geneology texts, and the Wampanoag culture is extinct... I think we kind of know what went on there.
Wampanoag people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
But the story about Pilgrims and Indians eating Turkey together is a lot nicer for the kids.
The Disneyification of history.
Wikipedia--where you can change past history with cut and paste.
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Hah, The "First Thanksgiving" occurred before the arrival of the Pilgrims, Berkeley Hundred, Virginia in 1619.