The First 50 Years: An Untold Story

The evolution of the free mind. Connie Baxter Marlow traces the path of the Mayflower Pilgrims/Separatists who defied their king to follow their conscience and establish a society based upon the right of individuals to choose their leaders and course of action, as defined in The Mayflower Compact. Fifty years of peace and friendship with the Wampanoag Indians, and the melding of ideas with the Iroquois Great Law laid the foundation for a great nation to evolve. One that has yet to live up to its highest potential.

Two visionary leaders Massasoit/Wampanoag and William Bradford/Pilgrim saw their common humanity and kept their people in peace for a generation. When asked how he dared come into Indian country to bring a life-saving remedy to the dying Massasoit Edward Winslow responded: "Where was true love, there was no fear and my heart was so upright towards them, that for mine own part I was fearless to come amongst them." excerpt from "Good News from New England" by Edward Winslow. Chapter 4.


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[TheAmericanEvolution]

Wow - that's cool. We've been there. Very inspiring. Blessings, Connie

[macpduff]

The 1620 Pilgrims did NOT commit an act of treason against King James. Their Mayflower Compact even says 'for the glory of our King and country.

They were moving far away from the center of power in an effort live and worship more autonomously. But they were acting within the confines of Law, and what was legal.

They were exercising an option - to set up the 1st settlement in the Northern part of the Virginia Colony . Not committing treason.

[TheAmericanEvolution]

@macpduff

Thank you for your comment. The Separatists in England, who later became the Mayflower Pilgrims, committed treason when they held secret meetings and when the left England. It was against the law to do either.

[TheAmericanEvolution]

We need to understand the common truths we all carry in our hearts and that Massassoit and Bradford recognized this in each other and kept their people in peace and friendship for 50 years! We can teach our children that this country was founded on common respect and honoring of each other.

We need to set the record straight so our children can come together with honor and respect too, and bring the Native peoples gifts of understanding the heart and spirit of all things animate and inanimate.

[anockqus]

ugh! Vision of Freedom? allowing individuals to Flower? This woman's ancestors started Oppressing the Wampanoag way of life the second they stepped on Patuxet soil. These people know nothing about what their ancestors were really all about. All there know about is that Romanticized Victorian Version of 'The first thanksgiving'

[TheAmericanEvolution]

Perhaps you might read some source material with an open heart and mind - you might find that something good happened that can inspire us all to a higher place. There's light and shadow everywhere and through all time - it just depends where one wants to put one's attention.

Would enjoy discussing this further if you would.

Warm wishes,

Connie

[BashuUp]

Starting with the Pilgrims not only leaves out the Indians, but also the Spanish. In the summer of 1526 five hundred Spaniards and one hundred black slaves founded a town near the mouth of the Pedee River in what is now South Carolina. Disease and disputes with nearby Indians caused many deaths.

[DemoneyesDa]

JUST AND EQUAL...HA! still that is a LIE!

[DemoneyesDa]

@anockqus TRUE! MURDERERS IS WHAT THEY WERE, KILLING THE WISE NATIVE AMERICANS WITH THEIR DISEASE LADEN BLANKETS AND THE HISTORY BOOKS MAKE THE NATIVES OUT TO BE THE SAVAGES, HA! THE CHRISTIANS WERE AND ARE STILL THE MOST KILLING SAVAGES OF THE ENTIRE WORLD! WE KNOW NOTHING BECAUSE THE WISE WERE MURDERED! AND NO THE MAYFLOWER WAS NOT THE FIRST BOAT HERE FROM ELSEWHERE, BUT THAT LIE TEACHERS WILL TELL TOO! LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME IS A GREAT BOOK ON SOME REAL HISTORY! Read THAT!

[eldictator1]

Interesting video. funnily enough my brothers baby last week was christened in the same church as william Bradford in austerfield/doncaster..Just down the road is scrooby and the st wilfrid church and the archiepiscopal mansion where the founders used to meet and brewsters college.

[hivedrone83]

@TheAmericanEvolution Who cares about English law? they're our lapdog now!

[Turtlenutz420]

Freedom won't work right either when you have to explain it.  Whats the untold story of pilgrims potrayed in black an white when they seem to be well iridescent! Mason s.o.b.'s.

[longfootbuddy]

democracy doesnt work so well when the people have lost theyr minds