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Book SynopsisA great deal has been written about the Pilgrims, perhaps more than any other small group in American history. Yet they continue to be extravagantly praised for accomplishing what they never attempted or intended, and they are even more foolishly abused for possessing attitudes and attributes foreign to them. In the popular mind they are still generally confused, to their great disadvantage, with the Puritans who settled to the north of them around Boston Bay. The purpose of the Willison narrative is to allow the Pilgrims to tell their own story, insofar as possible, in their own words and deeds.Saints and Strangers brings back to life men and women who were among the most stalwart of American ancestors. George F. Willison destroys the myth that too long has been createdin the American mind: that Pilgrims, while pious and much to be admired, were a drab, stern people dedicated to prudery. Nothing could be further from the facts. These were lusty English people who were well aware of go
Table of ContentsI: Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrim Saga; II: The Postmaster at Scrooby; III: Seeds of Grace and Vertue; IV: Ye Lord’s Free People; V: Scandal in Brownists Alley; VI: At the Green Gate, Leyden; VII: The Merchant Adventurers; VIII: A Waighty Vioage; IX: Mutiny on the Mayflower; X: Babes in the Wilderness; XI: New Plimoth Planted; XII: Yellow Feather, the Big Chief; XIII: Fortune; XIV: Cold Comfort for Hungrie Bellies; XV: Liquidation of Wessagusset; XVI: The Season of Gentle Showers; XVII: Unsavorie Salte; XVIII: The Undertakers; XIX: Purge of Joylity; XX: Into ye Briers; XXI: Diaspora; XXII: Minister Trouble; XXIII: Thrown by the Bay Horse; XXIV: Apotheosis
