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The Resource The Mayflower : the families, the voyage, and the founding of America, Rebecca Fraser

The Mayflower : the families, the voyage, and the founding of America, Rebecca Fraser

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Summary
  • Draws on contemporary documents to examine the lives of an ordinary family, the Winslows, made less ordinary by their responses to the challenges of the New World after their passage on the Mayflower
  • "A vivid narrative history of the Mayflower and of the Winslow family, who traveled to America in search of a new world. The voyage of the Mayflower and the founding of Plymouth Colony is one of the seminal events in world history. But the poorly equipped group of English Puritans who ventured across the Atlantic in the early autumn of 1620 had no sense they would pass into legend. They had eighty casks of butter and two dogs, but no cattle for milk, meat, or ploughing. They were ill-prepared for the brutal journey and the new land that few of them could comprehend. But the Mayflower story did not end with these Pilgrims' arrival on the coast of New England or their first uncertain years as settlers. Rebecca Fraser traces two generations of one ordinary family and their extraordinary response to the challenges of life in America. Edward Winslow, an apprentice printer, fled England and then Holland for a life of religious freedom and opportunity. Despite the intense physical trials of settlement, he found America exotic, enticing, and endlessly interesting. He built a home and a family, and his remarkable friendship with King Massassoit, Chief of the Wampanoags, is part of the legend of Thanksgiving. Yet, fifty years later, Edward's son Josiah was commanding the New England militias against Massassoit's son in King Philip's War. [This book] is an intensely human portrait of the Winslow family written with the pace of an epic. Rebecca Fraser details domestic life in the seventeenth century, the histories of brave and vocal Puritan women and the contradictions between generations as fathers and sons made the painful decisions which determined their future in America."--Dust jacket flaps
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Extent
xiii, 358 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
Contents
  • Prologue: 1676
  • Droitwich
  • Leiden
  • Leaving Holland
  • The voyage
  • Land
  • Massasoit
  • The building of "our town"
  • Good farms
  • Massachusetts begins
  • The Pequot War
  • The Pan-Indian Conspiracy
  • Leaving for London, 1646
  • Republican England
  • Hercules
  • Generational change
  • The coming of war
  • King Philip's War
  • Penelope alone: the widow's bed "not priced"
  • Penelope's final actions
Isbn
9781250108562
Instance
Label
The Mayflower : the families, the voyage, and the founding of America
Title
The Mayflower
Title remainder
the families, the voyage, and the founding of America
Statement of responsibility
Rebecca Fraser
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
  • Draws on contemporary documents to examine the lives of an ordinary family, the Winslows, made less ordinary by their responses to the challenges of the New World after their passage on the Mayflower
  • "A vivid narrative history of the Mayflower and of the Winslow family, who traveled to America in search of a new world. The voyage of the Mayflower and the founding of Plymouth Colony is one of the seminal events in world history. But the poorly equipped group of English Puritans who ventured across the Atlantic in the early autumn of 1620 had no sense they would pass into legend. They had eighty casks of butter and two dogs, but no cattle for milk, meat, or ploughing. They were ill-prepared for the brutal journey and the new land that few of them could comprehend. But the Mayflower story did not end with these Pilgrims' arrival on the coast of New England or their first uncertain years as settlers. Rebecca Fraser traces two generations of one ordinary family and their extraordinary response to the challenges of life in America. Edward Winslow, an apprentice printer, fled England and then Holland for a life of religious freedom and opportunity. Despite the intense physical trials of settlement, he found America exotic, enticing, and endlessly interesting. He built a home and a family, and his remarkable friendship with King Massassoit, Chief of the Wampanoags, is part of the legend of Thanksgiving. Yet, fifty years later, Edward's son Josiah was commanding the New England militias against Massassoit's son in King Philip's War. [This book] is an intensely human portrait of the Winslow family written with the pace of an epic. Rebecca Fraser details domestic life in the seventeenth century, the histories of brave and vocal Puritan women and the contradictions between generations as fathers and sons made the painful decisions which determined their future in America."--Dust jacket flaps
Summary
With the aid of contemporary documents, the author brings to life an ordinary family, the Winslows, made less ordinary by their responses to the challenges of the New World after their passage on the Mayflower, in a book that looks at the First Thanksgiving and the Winslows conflicted relationship with the Wampanoag Indians
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http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
10601736
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Fraser, Rebecca,
Dewey number
974.4/02
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
  • plates
Index
index present
LC call number
F68
LC item number
.F83 2017
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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True
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Winslow, Edward
  • Winslow, Josiah
  • Winslow family
  • Mayflower (Ship)
  • Winslow, Edward
  • Winslow family
  • Winslow, Josiah
  • Mayflower (Ship)
  • Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)
  • Massachusetts
  • Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)
  • Massachusetts
  • HISTORY / Social History
  • HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Target audience
adult
http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
the families, the voyage, and the founding of America
Label
The Mayflower : the families, the voyage, and the founding of America, Rebecca Fraser
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Prologue: 1676 -- Droitwich -- Leiden -- Leaving Holland -- The voyage -- Land -- Massasoit -- The building of "our town" -- Good farms -- Massachusetts begins -- The Pequot War -- The Pan-Indian Conspiracy -- Leaving for London, 1646 -- Republican England -- Hercules -- Generational change -- The coming of war -- King Philip's War -- Penelope alone: the widow's bed "not priced" -- Penelope's final actions
Control code
21104533
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Extent
xiii, 358 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9781250108562
Lccn
2017026873
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
(OCoLC)989124127
Label
The Mayflower : the families, the voyage, and the founding of America, Rebecca Fraser
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Prologue: 1676 -- Droitwich -- Leiden -- Leaving Holland -- The voyage -- Land -- Massasoit -- The building of "our town" -- Good farms -- Massachusetts begins -- The Pequot War -- The Pan-Indian Conspiracy -- Leaving for London, 1646 -- Republican England -- Hercules -- Generational change -- The coming of war -- King Philip's War -- Penelope alone: the widow's bed "not priced" -- Penelope's final actions
Control code
21104533
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Extent
xiii, 358 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9781250108562
Lccn
2017026873
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
(OCoLC)989124127

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