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The Mayflower : the families, the voyage, and the founding of America /

A vivid narrative history of the Mayflower and of the Winslow family, who traveled to America in search of a new world. The voyage of the Mayflower and the founding of Plymouth Colony is one of the seminal events in world history. But the poorly equipped group of English Puritans who ventured across...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fraser, Rebecca (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, [2017]
Edition:First U.S. edition.
Subjects:
Winslow, Edward, > 1595-1655.
Winslow, Josiah, > 1629?-1680.
Winslow family.
Mayflower (Ship)
Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)
Massachusetts > History > New Plymouth, 1620-1691.
HISTORY / Social History.
HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: 1676
  • Droitwich
  • Leiden
  • Leaving Holland
  • The voyage
  • Land
  • Massasoit
  • The building of "our town"
  • Good farms
  • Massachusetts begins
  • The Pequot War
  • The Pan-Indian Conspiracy
  • Leaving for London, 1646
  • Republican England
  • Hercules
  • Generational change
  • The coming of war
  • King Philip's War
  • Penelope alone: the widow's bed "not priced"
  • Penelope's final actions.