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5. For some members of the Massachusetts colony, that was true

Fri Dec 22, 2023, 06:40 PM

Dec 2023

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But not even all the passengers on the Mayflower were part of the same church. And those religious refugees who settled Plymouth shouldn't be considered "let and let live" types either. They had their own religiously affiliated state in mind.

Plus, the pilgrims who landed in 1620 were preceded by Virginia settlers who came for purely capitalistic reasons. They sought fortune and a way to recreate England's landed gentry system on this side of the Atlantic.

Others came here because they were rough and rascally types who stayed on the wrong side of the criminal justice system in the Old World. Others wanted to recreate the West Indies plantation society that rested on a brutal foundation of slavery.

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