No doubt there are thousands of books about the founding fathers, the Pilgrims, Quakers and other early immigrants to what would become the USA.This is the only one I've read, and it gave my a real insight (perhaps because it is the only one I've read) into the kind of people who escaped religious oppression in 16th century England, first of all to Holland, where they chartered a few ships, and picked up more fundamentalists from England and made their way to America.
Not only did they ignore many of their basic teachings, they proceeded to do a shabby job of mixing with the indigenous native tribes, and pretty soon ended up killing a lot of them, turning certain groups against themselves, passing on diseases and generally making what we historians call a "pig's ear" of their presence.
I never knew the Pilgrims, those nice Christian types, were so NASTY!
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