The Pilgrims Were Not Religious Refugees

Part of the modern myth of the Pilgrims is that they were religious refugees who traveled to America to flee religious persecution. There are nuggets of truth to this story but in reality, their motivations were far different and more complex than this idea lets on. Watch this video to learn the real reasons they made their journey into history.

Sources
1)Mourt’s Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth
2)Of Plymouth Plantation (William Bradford)
3)The Bay Colony: a Civil, Religious and Social History of the Massachusetts Colony and Its Settlements From the Landing at Cape Ann in 1624 to the Death of Governor Winthrop in 1650; (William Dummer Northend)
4)The Founding of New England (James Truslow Adams)
5)Plymouth Colony: Its History & People 1620-1691 (Eugene Aubrey Stratton)
6) The Colonization of North America (Herbert Eugene Bolton, Thomas Maitland Marshall)

Timestamps
0:00 Opening
0:44 The Puritans
1:47 Divide in Anglicanism
2:42 Persecution of the Separatists
3:18 The Scrooby Congregation
4:17 Fleeing England
4:46 The Netherlands
5:56 Why they Left
7:48 Closing

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