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Slave trade

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Mayflower

Mayflower

The Mayflower was the name of the ship that transported the pilgrims to America, better said, to Plymouth, Massachusetts.

There were 102 passengers.

The vessel left England on September 6, 1620 and after a 66-day journey the ship dropped anchor inside  tip of Cape Cod  on November 11/November 21. The Mayflower was originally destined for the  edge of England's Virginia colony, which was established with the 1607 Jamestown Settlement. However, the Mayflower went off course.
The Mayflower has a famous place in American history as a symbol of early European colonization of the future United States. With their religion oppressed by the English Church and government, English Dissenters called Pilgrims desired a life where they could practice their religion freely.

Pilgrims

Pilgrims was the name applied to the very first settlers on the Plymouth, Massachusetts colony.

Their leadership came from the religious congregations of English Dissenters who had fled England for  Holland in the Netherlands. Concerned with losing their cultural identity, the group later arranged with English investors to establish a new colony in North America.

The colony, established in 1620, became the oldest continuously inhabited British settlement and the second successful English settlement (after the founding of Jamestown, Virginia in 1607) in what was to become the United States of America. The Pilgrims' story of seeking religious freedom has become a central theme of the history and culture of the United States.

Squanto

Squanto (his name was Tisquantum) (1580s – November 1622) was a Patuxet. He was the Native American who helped the Pilgrims after their first winter in the New World and was esssenial to their survival.