CHAPTER 9
LESSON SEVEN: THE MAYFLOWER
Following from our introduction to the Protestant Reformation, we’ll meet the 102 passengers of the Mayflower; a merchant ship designed to transport goods, not people, across the English Channel---not the far flung Atlantic Ocean. What drove these mostly (but not entirely) English pilgrims to leave the religious refuge they had found in the Netherlands to create a new home in an unfamiliar, “undevel- oped” land? Who gave them the authority to do this? What had they agreed to in exchange for this new land? To whom were they beholden?
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