Pilgrim's First Thanksgiving, by Jennie Brownscomb
Here's an interesting post on Lady Lydia's 'Home Living' Blog about the Mayflower Pilgrims. Lady Lydia posted an article written by Richard J. Maybury called "Why the Pilgrims Starved and Then Prospered".
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Lady Lydia's post has a cherry-picked appearance.
The agreement seemed to be, before they left the Netherlands, to hold things in common for seven years and then divide equally and be independent:
"That at the end of the 7. years, the capitall and profits, viz. the houses, lands, goods and chatles, be equally devided betwixte the adventurers, and planters; which done, every man shall be free from other of them of any debt or detrimente concerning this adventure."
I don't doubt these were prudent men. But it seems that a great sickness overtook the colony that first winter before they even had a chance to get settled. In fact, if not for a "common house," Bradford himself would have succumb that first winter. A very hard life he had - I don't envy him.
But, I suppose an Amish barn-raising is socialism?
Bradford's manuscript was written over a period of 27 years and is largely a retrospective account, not an as-it-happened diary and he is, of course, the hero of his own story.
But, I suppose an Amish barn-raising is socialism?
People who own their own property and get the benefit of it can still be kind and neighborly and help one another. I don't think the Amish are socialists. Don't they own their own farms and make a profit from them?
Bradford's manuscript was written over a period of 27 years and is largely a retrospective account, not an as-it-happened diary and he is, of course, the hero of his own story.
The fact that Bradford was elected governor over and over and served in that post most of the rest of his life shows the confidence the people placed in his wisdom and ability. His writing shows his faith and knowledge and character.
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