Young Mayflower passenger shaped image of Pilgrims and offered only contemporary account of first Thanksgiving
It is the first and greatest American adventure story.
A small band of Christian devotees, persecuted in their homeland, sought refuge in a forbidden wilderness across the vast ocean aboard a leaky ship in the autumn of 1620.
Against all odds, following near death at sea, amid privation, disease and frightening loss of life, they planted the seeds of a daring new society.
Within a few generations their descendants brazenly challenged the world’s monarchial order with the revolutionary statement that “all men are created equal” and fought to establish the first great constitutional republic.