The New World: How The Pilgrim Fathers Colonised America | Journey Into Unknown | Real History

In 1650, the Mayflower set out on it's voyage from Plymouth, England. On board were 102 pilgrims taking the huge risk of starting a new life on the other side of the world. Little did they know that this would be the catalyst for an enormous shift in world history for years to come.
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[@anitapeludat256]

We can also credit the Puritans for their belief in teaching boys AND girls to read. The practice of only educating boys was still prevalent in 1900 in England when my grandmother was a young girl. The Puritans expected everyone in their church to read the bible of their time. Teaching girls to read was quite a step forward and spread through other colonies over time.

[@jamesbass7981]

I wish the progressive young people could see what the Church has done for their progress,not politicians!!

[@knewledge8626]

​@@jamesbass7981The Church, while they have been advocates for progressive policies, relied on politicians to pass progressive laws. I wish you would look at what politicians are doing to your religion.

[@jefffuller6683]

I love how people only watch shows to pick apart the history. My ancestors were on the Mayflower and I am proud of the brave people who had enough bravery to make the voyage. God bless America 🇺🇸

[@hughsmith7668]

Did you know they have found the Mayflower?

[@jamieseach8911]

I’m a descendent from the Mayflower!

[@grahambyrne7868]

Really is that true 😂

[@patchadams4me]

Well, it doesn't help when historians lie. 102 people didn't "colonise" America, most of them died the first year. 1650? Nope. My family was here before that and they didn't come on the Mayflower.

[@CaraFay-bf8jk]

I am a descendant of William Brewster. These things are so interesting to me.

[@cenote100]

Thank you William Bradford for all your efforts . RIP

[@lindakay9552]

William Bradford was my 10th great grand father. DNA test and paper trail to prove it.

[@FloridaMugwump]

​@@lindakay9552I am a direct descendant also. How do I get my DNA test?

[@SOULRELIEF22]

In the end, we must ALL be BLOOD kin to JESUS! Nothing else matters in Eternity! St John 3:16! ❤

[@lindakay9552]

@SOULRELIEF22 A lot more than that matters. For some of us, like myself, who happen to be direct DNA descendants of William Bradford, I wouldn't exist without this story. So don't undermine other people's heritage.

[@FloridaMugwump]

@@lindakay9552 Yeah, where did you get his DNA, lol. I am a direct descendant of Bradford also.

[@royschmidt8526]

At least 8 of my mother's ancestors were on the Mayflower. One of the reasons for their making landfall was the need for water. That first winter half of them died from various illnesses that probably were new to them. They brought illness from Europe and appear to have been impacted by those found in America. The abandoned native village they first inhabited had been abandoned due a plague in the village.

[@lindamoses3697]

❤Me too!

[@shaunmichealeeles6914]

You don't need to tell me I just watched the program

[@cboyd5568]

That is impossible. Do some research.

[@BrendanOkeefeMusic.]

The diseases that the pilgrims suffered were self inflicted.

[@FutureMythology]

The Pilgrim Fathers' trip symbolizes religious freedom and discovery. Their daring crossing of the Atlantic and founding of Plymouth Colony changed American history. This story highlights the struggles and tenacity that shaped a new planet. 🇺🇸🗽🌎

[@patchadams4me]

...a new planet?

[@johnathandaviddunster38]

​@@patchadams4me*planet HOLLYWEIRD..

[@johnathandaviddunster38]

@@patchadams4me a whole new nation where the average citizen doesn't know where Canada is.....

[@FloridaMugwump]

You understand that the Pilgrim colony was a complete failure? It was the Puritans at Boston who prospered.

[@DenUitvreter]

They fled the religious freedom of the Dutch Republic.

[@sydneymills2928]

My mother's family came in 1635 on the Increase. Yes God bless them for coming and God bless America.

[@Ivehadenuff]

I believe I had an ancestor on that ship but have not been able to verify. Also may have an ancestor whose first wife was on the Mayflower.

[@tashawiebe3450]

The world needs more people like you. Thank you for your kind words!

[@Skooty68]

Scrooby is only 20 miles away from where i live.... Just seen that William Bradford's from Austerfield,i've been there a few times..That's 17 miles away

[@maryunger7008]

What a load of nonsense. They were looking for freedom for THEIR religious beliefs. Anyone else's was witch craft, sin and evil.

[@amalgamated-]

Yes

[@brandonbath6097]

Yes.

[@someonethatisachristian]

Correct, and thats also exactly what it was: witch craft, sin and evil.

[@TOliver-kf4jx]

And??? ... Are you seeking victimhood status?? Perhaps reparations??? Or just a reason to bitch???

[@dmkuchins6646]

@@someonethatisachristian Nope.

[@retrosonghits]

My ancestor, Moses Fletcher was aboard the Mayflower and one of the signatories of the Mayflower Compact. He was a blacksmith by trade. He was related to my grandpa, Albert Washington Fletcher on my maternal side. I never knew about this until the mid 70s, around 11/12 years old, when dusting a bookshelf at my Mom's and a book fell with a piece of paper falling out. I looked at it and said the Mayflower Manifest. I looked through the names and saw Moses Fletcher. Asking Mom about this, she said he was our relative but that paper was just a copy of the actual manifest.

[@lindakay9552]

William Bradford was my 10th great grandfather.

[@retrosonghits]

@@lindakay9552 Cool! Neat to hear that ~

[@shaunmichealeeles6914]

Hang on some one else claimed there grategrandfather was William Bradford thses Americans chat a lot of shit

[@jet4906]

If you ever get to the area around Oxford, go to Old Jordan to see the Mayflower Barn. The timbers match the description of the beams from the Mayflower, including the repair on the beam mentioned here. You can also see the Meeting House used by the Quakers and see the graves of many of William Penn’s family. That is part of one of the Girl Scouts’ three Old World New Dreams routes in England. When ships were no longer seaworthy, they were often sold to build barns.

[@RICREYNOLDSMUSIC]

One valuable piece of the puzzle they are missing is the fact that the Mayflower leaders held the seasons by the stars calculations. They did not just look around and hope they got planting right and were ignorant of this fact. They held the alignment of the seasons that some Indians held and that was one piece of the respected puzzle that quickly bonded them. As for the Indians, they were at war with each other for hundreds of years and were hunting each others tribes to kill or make slaves. This is what some tribes felt when they first saw the white man as they were cautious in dealing with them.

[@johnshields6852]

Boston born we lived in-between Plymouth and Boston on the coast, I've always been keenly aware of the native before us, almost every street name was Indian, many towns names have Indian names, there everywhere.

[@dianatopoulos5602]

I, too, was born and do live in between Boston and Plymouth, Massachusetts. It is true that So many towns and streets have Indian names. I am extremely proud to live where I live.

[@beachgirl1947]

William Bradford was my great grandfather & I’m so proud of his vision & what he established in America’s earliest days.

[@Krana-rt2yy]

​@@Yeahok-pc2jdyeah, I was thinking the same thing.

[@amalgamated-]

Are you a vampire or something???😂

[@shaunmichealeeles6914]

So your telling me your 4 generations wich is about 150 roughly hang on thay landed when 1620 or 30 so 3 generation you your dad your grand dad yiu grate grandfather so 200 years1820 18 30 listen dint talk rubbish if he was your grategrandfather from century's ago I think yiu got it rong you you chatting shit

[@susansaoirse2797]

I'm assuming you abbreviated the greats. It's 7 for me. Nice to meet you, cuz.

[@lindakay9552]

@@beachgirl1947 actually he would be 10th great grandfather. I know, because he is mine. William had a son William who had a daughter Hannah who married Joshua Ripley. They had a daughter Alice, who married my 8th paternal great grandfather, Samuel Edgerton. And that's how ancestry works.

[@Bull1535]

I recently found out that I'm related to Samuel Fuller and John Alden. Alden is my 10th great grandfather, and Samuel is my 9th great grandfather.

[@KOOLBadger]

Kool!!!!

[@winros]

Twice removed?

[@SOULRELIEF22]

Adam and Eve are related to us ALL! PRAISE JESUS! ✝️ ❤️ THEY "ARE" RELATED TO US,.BECAUSE SOULS LIVE FOREVER! ST JOHN 3:16! ❤ JESUS IS RETURNING SOON! HALLELUJAH! ❤️✝️❤️

[@SOULRELIEF22]

​@@winrosI love you so MUCH! 😊❤

[@lindamoses3697]

Me too!

[@Wowzersdude-k5c]

Why do the Pilgrims get all the credit when Jamestown in Virginia was already settled before the Mayflower ever sailed?

[@snoozeyoulose9416]

Not only that but the Mayflower was heading to Virginia to form a Puritan settlement within the Virginian interior where other Puritan settlements had already taken roost but were blown off course and forced to land where they were because of dwindling food stocks and lack of water.

[@matthewschreiner2039]

Mistake in the documentary. The image of the Mayflower is flying the Union Jack. The Act of Union did not take place until 1707.

[@AdanClark-zx7pw]

And I doubt that they had leaded windows that first winter

[@grahambyrne7868]

I think that was a Plymouth argyle flag 😂

[@johnathandaviddunster38]

​@@grahambyrne7868definitely doomed then 😅😅😅

[@brianmorris8045]

Yes, a touch of mistaken licence there, but the rest of the story is good.

[@Colin-Fenix]

I thought the same thing, but if you look closely at 15:15, there is only red cross, the cross of Saint Andrew. The Act of Union added a second diagonal red cross, so this is the correct flag.

[@sue5158]

I guess we're very fortunate our ancestors survived it all. 50% died is crazy.

[@michaelwalker-es6we]

Fortunately yet ever so brief that is. The fairy tale falls apart when you start dissecting the story from myth, lies and misinformation! ❤️👏🧐🧑‍🎨♾️

[@sinjun1973]

Some of my ancestors came over on the Mayflower. For being puritans some of them sounded a bit crazy to be honest. One almost was hung for mutainy while stranded on an island in the Bahamas after a shipwreck several years before The Mayflower.🤦🏼‍♀️ I read about people getting excommunicated seaveral times over. They were warriors though. They fought for this country in every war and worked on the underground railroad. They were amazing people.

[@grahambyrne7868]

Wow you're well informed 😊

[@cobainzlady]

only the Catholic church " excommunicates" people.

[@MiscreantRose]

I believe that would have been Stephen Hopkins who had been shipwrecked in the Bahamas (the story became the inspiration fir Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”). Hopkins wasn’t a Puritan, he was one of the Strangers who joined in on the journey. He continued to cause trouble in Plymouth for years, as his house became the first tavern in the settlement. 😂

[@AdrianWheeler-xm9ml]

history is gray & complex because it is made by human beings who are likewise

[@SOULRELIEF22]

Originally created in the image of GOD! Vibrant, beautiful and intelligent beyond imagination! Then sin entered, and brought grayness and complexity. But JESUS has brought us The BLESSED HOPE...!!! St John 3:16! ❤ HALLELUJAH for REDEMPTION!

[@SOULRELIEF22]

Adam named ALL the animals! He was in GOD'S image! We're supposed to be and WILL be again JUST LIKE JESUS! Our LORD, the One who wrote the Chronicles! GLORY! Using ONE alphabet for ALL THOSE NAMES! Billions of stars and JESUS calls them ALL by name! BRILLIANT!!! ❤❤❤ "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is." 1 John 3:2! "We shall be like Him"!!! I STAY EXCITED!!! 🙏🏼🙌🏼👏🏼💃

[@jessejames7801]

I've put the Declaration Of Independence on William Bradford's grave twice in my life. This video just reminded me to do it again.🇺🇸

[@SammyB-Habebe]

Imagine living their time!

[@callumcc8897]

Learn English

[@kaythomas5884]

I am descended from the Rev Thomas Blossom who was a friend of Pastor Robinson. He did not make it to America and is buried in Leiden. Our family live in Queensland Australia.

[@KickYouInTheThroat]

Thank heavens for our colonial ancestors who made this place what it is. Everyone here is far better off than they would be otherwise.

[@jolenajade]

Except the native people of course, nearly 400 years of genocide and occupation and we are not "better off"

[@carmenm.4091]

My Pilgrim-ancestors didn’t make the journey to the Americas, they stayed in the Netherlands after leaving England. So we assimilated into Dutch society and most of us are not even aware they have Pilgrim ancestry. We’re very happy in this country. I don’t understand what you mean by “Everyone here is far better off than they would be otherwise” 😊

[@cobainzlady]

might not be so true. my ancestor missed out on an Earldom back in England because he thought he would not inherit it but his brothers would. THEY ALL DIED and he never found out about it over here .

[@JohnnyKennedy-sf4sf]

Plymouth Massachusetts 🇺🇸

[@JohnnyKennedy-sf4sf]

The first thanksgiving

[@JohnnyKennedy-sf4sf]

Captain miles Standish

[@JohnnyKennedy-sf4sf]

Reverend bill Brewster

[@JohnnyKennedy-sf4sf]

Happy Thanksgiving from Mr and Mrs. reverend Johnny Kennedy 🇻🇪🇻🇦🇺🇸🇹🇳🇷🇴🇲🇽🇲🇬🇯🇵🇮🇹🇮🇱🇮🇳🇩🇪🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇬🇨🇦🇧🇷🇦🇺🩴🩴🧸🍞🦍🦒🐘🦏🦙🦅🐊🦝🦊🐻‍❄️🐼🐻🐺🐯🦁

[@Petrowsky14]

They found a shipwreck...it seemed like no one had been here before ... ah, what?

[@user-nt4zn3mz1g]

Puritans persecuted? What a load of propaganda. During the reigns of Elizabeth or James I, name two - just two - Puritans who were burned at the stake or tortured.They lost some civil rights, precisely because they wouldn't conform to the Anglican church, which was horribly sinful in their eyes. This rigid sanctimony made them quite unpopular and actively disliked - they banned Christmas, forbade dancing, tore down Maypoles, outlawed gambling and card games and theater performances, and would have turned England into a theocracy. They sought refuge in Holland, but the Dutch were too sinful for them. As for religious freedom in the New World, that's a damned lie. They wanted freedom for themselves, not for Quakers or Anabaptists or heaven forbid Catholics. They were horrified by Indian polygamy and polytheism whereas the Indians were astonished at how cruel they were to children and animals. The best that can be said about them is that they prized literacy.

[@jake300win]

*Native Americans or first nations. Pilgrims never encountered indians

[@leo-wr6do]

@@jake300win savages

[@anitapeludat256]

The fact they prized literacy was quite an enormous undertaking and influence, especially for girls. My grandmother was born in London in 1890 and was not permitted to read or learn. Only her brother was . Eventually they sailed to Canada, then migrated to Detroit. I have her exquisite needle point. She did it by sight and never learned to read or drive a car.

[@jeaniehyer7920]

And wasn't it King James that had the Bible translated from Greek to English?

[@watcher6555]

Because the English pilgrims were the ones with the courage fortitude and perseverance to forge this land into a mighty nation!

[@potter8488]

Not immigrants but pioneers. Big difference.

[@jolenajade]

without the native peoples ,yours would not have survived. You even learned your democracy from us, except for the women of course. Haudenosaunee women were an important part in Our constitution, shame you didn't copy that part of it when you made yours.

[@cobainzlady]

@@jolenajade Actually we had the old middle class ( Saxon) Town Meetings ( Tun Moot) and other forms of democracy already. But they also liked yours. They must have felt good about that similarity. And also, the Greeks had Democracy and the colonials copied them on a few thngs. But the US government is a Republic not a Democracy. .

[@jolenajade]

@@cobainzlady Tun moots did not have checks and balances, or specialized mechanisms for selection of chiefs or problem solving. Nor i would guess provision for women in the political system.

[@jolenajade]

@@cobainzlady The Greeks had democracy for land owning males only. I have not heard the influence of the others on your constitution being acknowledged by your government. The Senate acknowledged on Sept 16 1987 “the original framers of the Constitution, including most notably, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, are known to have greatly admired the concepts, principles and governmental practices of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. Whereas the confederation of the original Thirteen Colonies into one republic was explicitly modeled upon the Iroquois Confederacy as were many of the democratic principles which were incorporated into the Constitution itself "

[@fado792]

We actually had a Mayflower. A Triumph. Good beautiful car.

[@karenclem206]

William Bradford was an ancient ancestor of mine.

[@Petrowsky14]

If there were only 102 passengers, and they arrived in mid November how did people die every day till March? Who wrote this?

[@dancingtrout6719]

A Long LONG Time Ago i Can still Remember how that music used to make Me Smile

[@waltmooredanwilson8754]

Great movie. Thanks for sharing. Take care and God Bless.

[@papajon62]

Great movie. White European people rock 🪨. Plymouth Rock….

[@cboyd5568]

I’m a Mayflower descendant. This documentary is half baked. The depiction of Indian relations is completely biased. We know because we have the real history in our families.Don’t believe everything you watch

[@Seanenanigans]

Care to elaborate?

[@cboyd5568]

@@Seanenanigans research my fifth great grandfather Reverend Samuel Hopkins 1721-1803. It will be very clear what the relationship between our ancestors and the TRUE character of the Indian people were. They were drunks and murderers. They wanted alcohol instead of land. Our people were raped scalped kidnapped and tortured by the Indians. My grandfather gave everything he had to help the Indians to no avail. They were uncivilized.

[@susansaoirse2797]

Thanks. Had bad vibes, so to speak. Thanks for saving me the time.

[@MrSWITCH1983]

Corny and boring.... also, your full of crap,... your not a descendant of the mayflower... that was 500 years ago.

[@matthewshore4936]

The Pilgrims were tolerant of other religions (in Plymouth), but as the Puritans took over the Massachusetts Bay, they became intolerant. Hence this is why Roger Williams and his supporters founded the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

[@lisastillion2937]

My ancestors were at the Providence Plantations. My husbands family came to Maryland Colony in 1654.

[@cehealy1]

They were NOT Puritans, they were Pilgrims. Two entirely different groups and colonies (Plymouth vs. Massachusetts Bay, respectively).

[@KOOLBadger]

Thank you!😊

[@barbararussell9757]

I have noticed that this mistake is often made. I am surprised that this documentary made it because they emphasized the development of the freethinking of the Separatists in Holland but then they pivot and continue to refer to them as Puritans who were not freethinkers. Puritans never thought that opposite opinions might be correct.

[@solimarra]

​@@KOOLBadger Yes, they were. There were 2 types of Puritans: separatists and non-separatists.

[@KOOLBadger]

@@solimarra oh, Thank you!

[@cobainzlady]

They certainly were puritans . that's my ancestors on that ship. PURITANS. who morphed into Quakers later. There aren't any Puritans left of course.

[@JoeyArmstrong2800]

Great documentary.

[@rebeccawyse5562]

Bradford is Helen Hunt's ancestor...its on Who Do You Are.

[@rjhinnj]

I’m sure she is thrilled… 😆

[@Ivehadenuff]

My ancestor may have worked for Bradford in Sandwich MA area. 😊

[@heinekenczech]

It pays to be a winner!

[@glps6167]

"some say .. since we are not in New York" (min. 18.30). This statement is utterly unhistoric. New Netherland only was taken by the English in 1664, and on that occasion named New York, 44 years after the arrival of the Pilgrim Fathers at Cape Cod.

[@cassandraachorne-klein3415]

How did the native Americans read and understand the pilgrims note about paying them for the spring planting seed later ? This is an earnest question

[@WhatsCookingTime]

The award native Americans who had already engaged in trade with the British all up and down New England. Remember they knew where to land . Native Americans with this group of people who never saw anybody not from the United States etc.

[@garyharris4008]

An English educated native known as

[@garyharris4008]

Sommerset

[@cobainzlady]

well they didn't of course !!! that might be half the problem. But it was an abandoned village despite what some say nowadays. around 90% of natives had died from thier own plagues before ANY white people arrived. in Central and North America. That's the recent new findings.

[@jeaniehyer7920]

😆 I thought the same thing. Do you think the Indians filed the note away? 😅

[@samuelmuller9940]

What about the beer for the water was unfit to drink.

[@virginiabotha3545]

They were very brave people indeed. Reminds me of the Voortrekkers who came to South Africa.

[@michaelpriest6242]

I am so very thankful to God that the Pilgrims saw the wisdom of establishing Plymouth Colony as a republic instead of a democracy as many of you people continue to call it. I also thank God that the founders of the United States also saw, and followed the same wisdom. I am grateful that you conceded the importance of writing the Mayflower Compact, and successive laws. Writing endures. Memories fail. I thank God for Bradford, Massasoit, Standish, Squanto, saints, strangers, and Wampanoag and the others whose charity allowed Plymouth Colony to thrive.

[@lindamoses3697]

Yes. I fully agree with your words

[@sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401]

You are wrong on all counts...as a group, they were dangerous radicals who could not live among other people. No one could stand them.

[@Cerceify4645]

The United States is now a Democratic Republic. My family suffered to get here. William Brewster's wife and two daughters later died from a fever . Patience Brewster had a male descendant who according to the Wampanoag, married a descendant of Pocahontas.

[@maryfrump7937]

Bradford second wife was my Great many times Grandmothers sister. I think geneology is great.

[@TheSignkitty]

Wolf Truchsess von Wetzhausen - Your birthdate infomoration is off by an entire decade. William Bradford, was born in 1590 and lived until 1657. I haven't finished watching this documentary, I'm already wondering what else you got wrong .

[@linsullivan821]

I was just at the Governor Bradford Inn & restaurant in Provincetown!! Love it there.

[@dianespeier4thtrimester]

You need to correct the date in the description.

[@IblewuponyourfaceIII]

Why don’t most documentaries about the European immigration to the United States rarely if ever mention that the Spanish were first then the French. They usually just start with the Mayflower of the Pilgrims & Puritans. It’s an Anglo-English narrative. Spain & France were there before England & also can’t forget the Dutch & Swedish also Russia with Alaska.

[@cheleftb]

Agreed.

[@Bull1535]

Vikings and Celtics were here before the Spanish and the french

[@IblewuponyourfaceIII]

@@Bull1535 And the Phoenicians, Egyptians & Romans before the Norsemen & Celtics.

[@GnarStark]

Well this is specifically about the beginnings of the United States. Which was made up of a lot of English puritans. There are tons and tons of documentaries about the conquistadors and French colonists of the americas. This one is just specifically about the mayflower….

[@IblewuponyourfaceIII]

@@GnarStark Half of the passengers on the Mayflower we’re descendants of the French Huguenots.

[@glenseddon7379]

Note to the editor of the intro text, need to correct the date to 1620 in the opening sentence (it currently shows as 1650). Thanks.

[@docjw8914]

Jamestown down south in Virginia is arguably more important than the Plymouth. It was the actual first successful English colony in North America.

[@lewisorely]

i used to move furniture for mayflower van lines. where's my reparations 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@katiehale4411]

Great. Thank you.

[@markmannm2]

The only thing that saved us from Calvin and the western world of torture is the separation of Church and State. As a Christian my soul is rocked to the core reflecting upon the cast of characters and their belief systems. So let me get this straight they are going off to the unknown during storm season taking over 3 times as long as an average crossing. All of this a wonderful part of our history.... Yikes, you really can rationalize anything. MarkMannM2

[@anitapeludat256]

There were others here before they arrived. Some folks are direct descendants of the Puritans and they believed in literacy for both men and women which was not common back in England. The French were already here and were known to have gotten along better with the Indigenous nations and much of our language is indigenous based. Majority of roads today in Connecticut and the other New England states are the original native trails. Going back to the 1300's over what became Michigan, corresponds with what would become the fight for independence, eventually, with many different wars and conflicts. The Ulster Scots and Germans, all in the Appalachia region had a direct say in the war of Independence. The Dutch were here long before then, in the large NYC and Connecticut region too . Of course, I only barely touched what was happening, including what is now New Brunswick and Canada.

[@knewledge8626]

Do a search for Mayflower history primary sources. Of Plymouth Plantation (Volume 1 and Volume 2) by William Bradford (written 1630-1651, first published 1854). This is the most complete first-hand history of Plymouth, written by its long-time governor.

[@zipzonker1576]

It was the beginning of what was inevitable. Evolution.

[@boxbury]

The Native Witch Doctor seemed a bit saucy in this documentary

[@maxrobespierre9176]

If you are truly interested in REAL history, draw by on this piece. It’s pure fantasy.

[@DaneStolthed]

Great documentary it’s too bad the Native Americans represented in this film were malcontent. I have several Native American friends that love America and White people.

[@pglanville]

Lol. You're drunk.

[@DaneStolthed]

@@pglanville …and why do you think that?

[@hahalleman246]

Weird that, being upset over the genocide of their people

[@DaneStolthed]

@@hahalleman246 …the pilgrims that came over on the Mayflower committed “genocide”?

[@shalineboissonneault9403]

Go with that. It's positive 😊

[@CaptivatingHistorys]

Great ❤

[@lestersabados1306]

Come on Gil, Get over it. Yes you have cause to be mad but if this series of events had different people from different countries, you probably wouldn't be speaking out today.

[@lewisorely]

who's that Indian calling a " liar"? he's the liar

[@sawmillmatt1]

Jamestown was first and most influential.

[@LoveLove-gw2td]

Words of the Mayflower Compact> kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmOWmHlvn7aXpK8feature=shared. The Geneva Bible is also iconic of the Mayflower.

[@johndorilag4129]

WE didn't land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us.

[@TheSignkitty]

EMERSON W BAKER, PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY YOU BELIVE FREE THINKERS WOULD NOT BE PALABLE IN TODAYS WORLD? AFTER ALL WE'RE NOT COMMUNIST!

[@jeaniehyer7920]

This was a good show, but why don't we learn about the other settlements that were here before Plymouth?

[@BrendanOkeefeMusic.]

All due respect to Gill Solomon leader of the Ponkapod but the pilgrims wrote of the first Thanksgiving. Obviously things didn’t work out for Native Americans in the long run. The puritans (pilgrims) were devout Christians who got along (in the beginning) with the Natives. It lasted for almost 50 years.

[@janwest5627]

The narrator says that on the first Christmas there was little celebration because of the sickness. Actually the Pilgrims did not celebrate Christmas.

[@verenamaharajah6082]

That’s correct. Even back then, people knew that Christmas is of purely pagan origins, not sanctioned or promoted in the Bible. The Jews did not celebrate birthdays as this was a pagan custom connected to worship of false gods. Jesus never told anyone to celebrate his birthday, he only asked his true followers to memorialise his sacrificial death.

[@brianmorris8045]

@@verenamaharajah6082 Then it all got to Rome. Jesus today wouldn't like all the trappings. When he comes again, there will be no denominations...i.e...No RC, no Anglican, Baptist, Church of Christ, Mormons, Pentecostal etc...you will be with him or not...no inbetween. It will be all one big church if you want to live in paradise on earth or in heaven. No second chances. That thought might irk a few denominational traditionalists who repectively think there's is the only true church. He will be coming to form one big church.

[@annemays1]

True

[@manishpjoshi]

Equal rights for everyone but we shall have slaves. What hypocrites .

[@Hunter_Nebid]

Keep applying modern values to old times... who sold them and keeps slaves today? Africans. Run along.

[@rosieslade8416]

and a correction the mayflower landed on plymoth in 1620 not 1650 there is a huge difference of 30yrs please get the history rght and the dates too

[@flippgoofman1868]

I got from this that they were ill-prepared & frightened of attack from the First Nations. The British weren't particularly great at this sort of thing at first. Much of the population of Botany Bay likewise perished under similar circumstances. Trying to import a European lifestyle to these far shores was daunting and dangerous & their arrival in November was really bad timing. They were brave, but so many of them died from disease and starvation. I also think that they were far less tolerant than is being made out in this documentary. It's hinted at in the interviews with contemporary descendants of the First Nations that were interviewed. The British didn't want the Pilgrims, & then the Dutch didn't either. Back in the 17th century, people were less tolerant overall, and if you were unwilling to conform you were chased out.

[@GenX_-um2ct]

Descendant here! Edward Doty was last signature on the Compact. He was the 1st person charged and convicted of a crime for quarrelling with his colleagues. Doty was on my mothers side. Ironically my other ancestor on my Dads side was Job Lane who came over to Masschussets Bay Colony on the 2nd wave. Lane and Doty definately knew each other!

[@oldreddragon1579]

The Description says 1650?

[@maryfrump7937]

I wish the colonists had never treated the native Americans as slaves. Horrible thing to do.

[@virginiabotha3545]

Chicken pox, measles and mumps are NOT harmless diseases. Where does that guy get that info?

[@AsadKhan-ii3es]

My sympathy always with the Native American Who r the actual inhabitants n owner of this great N/ S America.....

[@yyzsupra8338]

Jamestown schooled plymouth. 1607

[@bertvosburg558]

The bottom line is The native Americans were living good and the Europeans were living on a very thin line when they arrived and just getting by through their own efforts. The Native Americans like any human in this period knew what it was like to go HUNGRY. As a fellow human by NATURE they would help these Europeans. They knew HUNGER. That in itself would by NATURE make them help these other humans in a really tough world. Mean while and for centuries the Europeans would be selling THEIR way of life, "look how well we live compared to You" etc etc. The rest is history we've already lived for better or for worse. There is a lot to be said positive about their way of life at this time. One also has to remember there were approximately only 50,000 Native Americans on the continent. There's 340 million people here now or maybe even more?

[@janetdavies9056]

Rights for everyone but that only includes men! Who spoke up for the women?

[@SOULRELIEF22]

IN GOD WE TRUST! GOD'S LAND. THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND. ST JOHN 3:16! ❤ JESUS IS RETURNING SOON! GOD HAS BEEN LEFT OUT OF HIS LAND IN AMERICA, BUT NOT FOR ETERNITY! HALLELUJAH! ❤️✝️❤️

[@KOOLBadger]

Puritans are pilgrams that broke away. I just looked it up..

[@Pinion512]

It's funny that the indian suggests that "they lied from the very start". Indians notoriously have no records, so we really cant know anything about that situation other than what was noted by the settlers.

[@jake300win]

Indians have always lied and turned their backs on each other. Cherokee helped USA kill creeks. Crowes helped kill the Cheyenne and Sioux. Some sided with French and British colonists. It was about wealth and power.

[@cobainzlady]

ok well the natives had plenty of bad ways about them as well.

[@AndyJarman]

The English constitution was established soon after the Roman legions left. It's principles and traditions were well known and practiced by everyone. When King John failed to uphold his duties under the constitution he was forced to sign a document called The Magna Carta in 1215 which spells out the principles and duties the monarch was required to uphold in return for his station. The English constitution was written before but reiterated in 1215. All laws and statutes padsed since that time had to comply with this foundational agreement.

[@christopherdesloge3320]

Semi-good factual historical thumbnail summary film, just painfully poor reenactor acting.

[@stretchyjim1]

the animosity from the indian lady is funny.

[@marble204]

I’m English and found it funny that the pilgrims developed American accents on the way over there 🤦‍♂️😂

[@JR-em3mo]

24:18 pilgrims were the original squatters 😅

[@leighchambers5052]

This documentary is so full of political correctness that it's sickening. Long live America and all Americans!

[@jsigur157]

The Pilgrims went to the New World to Worship as they wished and then proceeded that anybody else near them be pilgrims as well. Becomes a little less noble when you hear it that way. Of course Indians had no rights at all once the Musket cleared them out. That issue goes back to the Bankers and a lesser degree the monarchs who simply needed boots on the ground who paid homage to England. The notion that Europeans could go to unknown lands and simply clear out the natives was in no way set in stone. Colonizing far away lands for exploitation was a concept totally new to Europeans if not all other parts of the known world. I suppose the Portuguese, the Dutch and the Spanish made the decision they had a right to. Who thought it over and decided they had a right to do that.. The first colony was in an area now called South Africa. It occurred around 1450. We all know about nations fighting nations usually if not always with borders touching the other nation. Of course the whole colonial mess started with Corporate entities. Before 1600, only Spain and Portugal were in the colonizing game/ To all essential purposes, all English colonizing after the monarchy ceased to be the main powerhouse, after the English Revolution. Most the work was done by corporations such as the East and West India Co. How do they go about claiming a land for England or Holland that is already occupied? Interesting that the elites who caused most of this shit are blaming it on White people. Most white people back then were Indentured Servants if they went to the New World. Hardly White People; definitely, multi=generational elites which was a race all to their own who never intermarried with ordinary whites

[@markdoty1213]

I bet there homes where no where that nice the first couple year's,hey great great great great great grandpa you made it.😊😊😊

[@anothercitizen4867]

After 50 years? I thought they were temporaries?

[@jenna2431]

In all reality it was the merchants and traders who did the most to settle here.

[@stephielulu9096]

I'm so ashamed of my countrymen who went to the US back then. 😒

[@christopherdesloge3320]

? Ashamed of the natural instinct of the country’s need and decision to expand to/with/for a new continent? Is Canada and Australia damned for their invention by British forefathers?

[@giannidcenzo]

Go Sox!

[@AndyJarman]

When they sign the contract they are forming a corporation, a very American thing to do.

[@voraciousreader3341]

I expected “Real History” to be about HISTORY….this is a religious evaluation, not historical.

[@rjhinnj]

Lol… and anything “religious” is not history?? Without the truths of the Bible, and the fact that people believed its words, there would be no America, nor the freedom and liberty enshrined in our founding documents.