American Literature / Unit 4 AML 0307 short lesson, about 20 seconds
William Bradford and *Of Plymouth Plantation*
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The idea
Bradford, a Yorkshire farmer's son, joined the Scrooby Separatists, fled with them to the Netherlands, and sailed from Southampton on the Mayflower in sixteen twenty. Bound for Virginia, they landed at Plymouth. His history covers the years to sixteen forty-seven and defines the settlement for later generations.
In practice
Separatist, exile, passenger, governor, historian.
Where people slip
Separatists left the English church; Puritans stayed in.
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