Telling the Mayflower Story: Thanksgiving or Land Grabbing, Massacres & Slavery?


Telling the Mayflower Story: Thanksgiving or Land Grabbing, Massacres & Slavery?

 Join authors Danny Reilly & Steve Cushion in conversation with Colin Prescod to discuss the overlooked aspects of the Mayflower‘s journey to America in 1620. 

  • Friday 30 November, 5:30 pm. 
  • UCL Institute of the Americas, 51 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PN

In the autumn of 1620 the ship Mayflower, with 102 passengers, landed in North America and started the colonisation of the area that became known as New England. The creation of the New England colonies by thousands of English colonists in the seventeenth century involved the violent seizure of territory and slavery.

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