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Telling the Mayflower Story: Thanksgiving or Land Grabbing, Massacres and Slavery?
by Danny Reilly and Steve Cushion
(Socialist History Society, £4)
THE still widely held belief that the Mayflower settlers laid the foundation for “freedom and democracy” in the US is the stuff of classic textbook histories of the Puritan settlements in New England.
With the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower landing looming in 2020, this pamphlet by Danny Reilly and Steve Cushion re-examines the history behind that belief.
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