Three comments: --- jp.underwood@ns.sympatico.ca wrote: > It is a common American-derived fallacy that the > Pilgrims ... > So repressive were the Quakers of Oliver Cromwell, > that the British welcomed back their king with open > arms! 1. Quakers and Pilgrims were two different, and distinct, groups of people. [Check out William Penn. > The Jamestown colony was actually thriving and > commercially viable long before the Mayflower landed > at Plymoth Rock (SeeJamestown: The Buried Truth, by > Dr. William Kelso) 2.Very true. Just recently watched a PBS Special on Jamestown. > He theorizes that the Mayflower myth was created by > the North during the Civil War, because Northern > scholars were unwilling to admit that the nation > owed its birth to Southern roots. 3. The way I heard it was the jamestown colonmy had slaves, and so, we [in the north] did not want to use them as the founders of The First Thanksgiving. Stan B I do NOT make mistakes -- I create learning opportunities for others! ____________________________________________________________________________________Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz