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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsImagine if the Native Americans stopped the Pilgrims from leaving the Mayflower....
....searched the adults and separated them from their children back in 1620?
They were a different race / color, different religion, and didn't speak their language.
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Imagine if the Native Americans stopped the Pilgrims from leaving the Mayflower.... (Original Post)
George II
Jun 2018
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Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)1. They bet they wish they did.
malaise
(269,020 posts)2. Big mistake on their part n/t
eShirl
(18,494 posts)3. The area was severely depopulated due to a recent deadly epidemic or epidemics.
Think, post-apocalyptic level.
So, there wasn't much opposition when they first arrived on the scene.
thucythucy
(8,066 posts)4. Especially since one of the first things the Pilgrims did
was to desecrate the graves of Native Americans for the corn buried there.
I can hear it now.
"The English aren't sending their best. They're sending lawbreakers, religious fanatics, they're sending grave robbers..."
Voltaire2
(13,042 posts)5. They should have prevented that boat from landing.
Perhaps you were trying to make some other point?