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William BradfordOf Plymouth Plantation is significant because it chronicles facts about the establishment of the Pilgrim Church in England, the group who left for Holland and eventually the trip on the Mayflower...
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William BradfordBradford's reference to the Mayflower passengers in the third-person as "they," and himself in the first person as "I" can sound a little jarring to modern ears, but it is an effective way to set...
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William BradfordAt first, William Bradford's view of Native Americans is far from flattering, to say the least. He shares the unthinking prejudices of most of his fellow Puritans at that time, regarding the...
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William BradfordIn the beginning of the chapter it reports of a young man who was giving everyone else aboard the ship a tough time. People struggled with sea-sickness and other ailments during their long journey...
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William BradfordWilliam Bradford belongs to what is considered Colonial literature. This time frame is also referred to occasionally as "foundations and encounters." Bradford was born to a farmer in England in the...
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William BradfordThe son of a prosperous farmer in Yorkshire, England, William Bradford took a radical step as a twelve-year-old: Bradford began attending the meetings of a small group of Nonconformists, a group of...
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William Bradford1. Bradford relies on desolate diction to demonstrate the downtrodden spirit of the people who fall under his leadership. Words and phrases such as "vast,""sea of trouble," "weatherbeaten,"...
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William BradfordWhen William Bradford initially describes the Native Americans in Of Plymouth Plantation, he speaks of them as barbaric savages. He describes them as violent and wild, saying that, unlike the...
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William BradfordThe passage you cited is quite typical of New Englander's concepts of Native Americans whom they considered to be members of the "lost tribe of Satan." He describes them as being cannibals at times...
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William BradfordBradford was the leader, the primary spokesperson, and the most famous chronicler of the Plymouth settlement. He was a member of the initial Separatist contingent that made the trip from England to...
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William BradfordDuring the first winter, the Puritans went without food, they were cold and they had little understanding of the savages they encountered. Many grew sick. During their voyage, they had lost many to...
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William BradfordIn the first chapter Of Plymouth Plantation, entitled "The Separatist Interpretation of the Reformation in England, 1550-1607," Bradford writes about the conditions which convinced the Pilgrims to...
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William BradfordWhile I appreciate that you're reading Bradford's journal and agree that he omitted any details of his wife's death, I don't accept the premise of your question. It doesn't seem reasonable that...
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William BradfordThis is an interesting pair of choices. Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation is, at its core, a journal. To that extent, it's an attempt to document the literal movements and insights of these...
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William BradfordTo provide a little background on the book Of Plymouth Plantation and the excerpt "The Starving Time", William Bradford wrote the majority of the text. As exampled by "The Starving Time," he...
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William BradfordIn William Bradford's telling, the Pilgrims indeed experienced expectation, suffering, success, and disappointment in the long journey that took them to the Netherlands, back to England, and then...
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William BradfordThe Mayflower Compact was a set of rules for self-governance established by English settlers heading to America on board the Mayflower. It was the first agreement for self-government to be created...
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William BradfordWilliam Bradford was a staunch Puritan Separatist and among his hopes was the aspiration for a community that was separate from English religious intervention and uncontaminated by what was thought...
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William BradfordOne of the most significant differences between their writings is the influence of religion upon their perspectives. Bradford--especially in Of Plymouth Plantation references Providence (God)...