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Exploring American History, Wednesday, November 27, 20204
Your two teachers were bundled up today because standing near the Atlantic Ocean in late November was not for the faint of heart. "Welcome to Plymouth, Massachusetts," Steve said, "the historic--if possible apocryphal--disembarkment spot of the colonists who arrived to this part of North America in December of 1620. It wasn't the first colony of English-speakers, but it's the one we tend to talk about more because leaving Europe in search of religious freedom plays better than Jamestown, where we left Europe searching for riches to exploit."
"Admittedly, the religious freedom aspect has since shaped this nation for good and for ill," Tony added. "These colonists would have also died had it not been for the local people whose land it actually was helping them with what crops actually grew well in the area. The Wampanoag were almost immediately rewarded for their help with deadly diseases brought over by the colonists to which the native population had no immunities to."
Steve nodded. "Smallpox had ravaged the Wampanoag even before the arrival of the Pilgrims, leaving this space as an abandoned village that the Pilgrims moved into, taking over the corn fields that had been left behind." His lips quirked up humorlessly. "That part is generally left out of the mythos of the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving."
"The Wampanoag people were decimated by disease, but also dealing with another native group seeing this as a weakness in a longstanding rivalry between the two of them and as such they decided the Pilgrims would be a good ally," Tony said. "The gathering of Pilgrims and Wampanoag people for the big feast that we now call Thanksgiving was actually preparing for a little war."
Because people always gonna people.
"But first there was pie, right?" Steve checked.
Tony snorted. "We have supplied pie for the class. So, please enjoy."
"Admittedly, the religious freedom aspect has since shaped this nation for good and for ill," Tony added. "These colonists would have also died had it not been for the local people whose land it actually was helping them with what crops actually grew well in the area. The Wampanoag were almost immediately rewarded for their help with deadly diseases brought over by the colonists to which the native population had no immunities to."
Steve nodded. "Smallpox had ravaged the Wampanoag even before the arrival of the Pilgrims, leaving this space as an abandoned village that the Pilgrims moved into, taking over the corn fields that had been left behind." His lips quirked up humorlessly. "That part is generally left out of the mythos of the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving."
"The Wampanoag people were decimated by disease, but also dealing with another native group seeing this as a weakness in a longstanding rivalry between the two of them and as such they decided the Pilgrims would be a good ally," Tony said. "The gathering of Pilgrims and Wampanoag people for the big feast that we now call Thanksgiving was actually preparing for a little war."
Because people always gonna people.
"But first there was pie, right?" Steve checked.
Tony snorted. "We have supplied pie for the class. So, please enjoy."
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