Pilgrims
"The mythic origin of 'the country we now know as the United States' is at Plymouth Rock, and the year is 1620." James W. Loewen stresses this origin as mythic due to the fact that for thousands of years humans had inhabited the land now known as America. Loewen goes on to describe the horrors the native peoples of America went through due to the diseases and other such terrible things the white "settlers" brought to the "New World." However, it is barely mentioned in Loewen's book, The Lies My Teacher Told Me, that the Separatists were acting upon a word of God, or Manifest Destiny. If Manifest Destiny were taken into account more, one would be able to provide a legitimate argument in favor of the Pilgrims' intent. (Loewen, 77) The Separatists were members of a radical religious movement in England in the 16th and 17th centuries. William Brewster, in 1606, led a portion of this group to Leiden, the Netherlands, to avoid further religious oppression from the English government. Some members of this Separatist group then voted, ten years later, to relocate to America. In order for them to afford such a journey, the Separatists received funding from a group of London investors, in return for produce from America. A ship c
(Loewen, Back of Book)Bibliography Bibliography"Manifest Destiny. He focuses on the repercussions of the Pilgrims' settlement. Since God had already decided who was going to be saved since before He created the earth, there was nothing people could do during their lives that could save or damn them. This "original sin" being established, it is the person's lifelong duty to redeem himself or herself from this sin. In short, Manifest Destiny plays a vital role in the determining of "rightness" or "wrongness" of the settlers' actions. Howard Simpson describes the sight the Pilgrims had stumbled across in America: "Villages lay in ruins because there was no one to tend them. " Historians speculate that this "plague" could have been any disease, from the bubonic plague to others such as hepatitis, small pox, chicken pox, or influenza.
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