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From persecuted to persecutors: The Mayflower Pilgrims fall out

6 June 2020

9:00 AM

6 June 2020

9:00 AM

They Knew They Were Pilgrims: Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty John G. Turner

Yale, pp.446, 22.5

The Mayflower’s journey did not simply end with landfall at Plymouth Rock, if indeed it ever arrived there in the first place — John Turner points out that no mention was made of the rock for 150 years after the Pilgrims disembarked; but the little ship has continued its voyage into mythology ever since.

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