PoliticalSlime

3303 pts · February 11, 2015


This is my public profile. I have written something about myself!

Oh I don’t disagree that it’s wildly fucked up. But this sort of fuckery happens all over the place.

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There are so many falsehoods that exist in history because of this. Are they true? Maybe not wholly. Do they simplify things? Yes.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Much of history that folks get taught isn’t as simple as “Nero was a bad guy,” but because that’s easier to communicate, that gets taught.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The problem with history is that it is always complicated, no matter where you are in time or location. So you have to simplify it down.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But at any rate, working there taught me how to word things in a way that people can understand, so doing videos could be cool

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Genuinely, I’ve thought about making videos before. Fun fact! I used to work a very famous museum in Plymouth. They suck!

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I guess my point is that freedom was never the goal of the pilgrims, so we’ve been fucked from the start

3 years ago | Likes 40 Dislikes 0

gets taught in schools after the Civil War, where America needed a nice, Christian, Northern origin story to unify it.

3 years ago | Likes 60 Dislikes 0

especially Catholics and the Church of England. Also, the Pilgrims aren’t tied directly to the foundation of the USA! That’s just what (3/?)

3 years ago | Likes 57 Dislikes 0

for freedom to practice THEIR religion, which is a very different thing. They didn’t really tolerate even other sects of Christianity, (2/?)

3 years ago | Likes 69 Dislikes 1

Hi! Plymouth Historian here! The people we call the pilgrims didn’t in fact move to the New World for “religious freedom,” they moved (1/?)

3 years ago | Likes 66 Dislikes 1

Ah, was wondering what it would be that would be so sturdy. Particles and ply would do that.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What kind of wood(s) did you use?

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

lolrip.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

your friend happen to be named stephen or hannah?

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

But hey, that's not fun. It's much more fun to pretend that people of the past were stupid and prudish. Thanks Victorians!

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I would argue that a petticoat, especially the outside one, doesn't count as underwear. 4 layers of undergarments is just incorrect.

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

doesn’t matter that much when it’s 400 years in the past. But if you want to know stuff about Brewster, HMU. Pilgrim info is my wheelhouse

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

In my experience most Mayflower societies aren’t that worth joining. Sure, it’s neat to know you’re both related to X. But it really

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William Brewster descendant, I presume

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A large concourse of Men stood amazd silent Spectators of the whole transaction." - Abigail Adams, July 31, 1777

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It was reported that he had a Spanking among them, but this I believe was not true.

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then opend the Warehouse, Hoisted out the Coffe themselves, put it into the trucks and drove off.

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by his Neck and tossd him into the cart. Upon his finding no Quarter he deliverd the keys, when they tipd up the cart and dischargd him,

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with a cart and trucks, marchd down to the Ware House and demanded the keys, which he refused to deliver, upon which one of them seazd him

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which he refused to sell to the committee under 6 shillings per pound. A Number of Females some say a hundred, some say more assembled

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and dealt out by pounds. It was rumourd that an eminent, wealthy, stingy Merchant (who is a Batchelor) had a Hogshead of Coffe in his Store

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Noise in the Town for several weeks. Some Stores had been opend by a number of people and the Coffe and Sugar carried into the Market

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expecially whilst they consider the Scarcity occasiond by the merchants having secreted a large Quantity. There has been much rout and

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You must know that there is a great Scarcity of Sugar and Coffe, articles which the Female part of the State are very loth to give up,

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