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Edward Winslow, one of the leaders of the Pilgrims, offered one of the only primary tellings of the first Thanksgiving in the book Mourt's Relations, a journal of the colony's early days.
Jennie Augusta Brownscombe, Thanksgiving at Plymouth, 1925, National Museum of Women in the Arts. The First Thanksgiving,1914, depicts the historic event when colonialists and Native Americans, led by Massasoit, gathered in 1621 to celebrate the bounty of their first harvest in accordance with an English tradition. [26]
Thanksgiving is celebrated in the country in large part due to the nation's founding as a colony of the American Colonization Society in 1821 by former slaves and free people of color from the United States. However, the Liberian celebration of the holiday is notably different from the American celebration.
According to the myth, the Pilgrims left England on the Mayflower in search of religious freedom. [2]: 7-8 [3] Although the settlers did include the Separatists, who wanted to break away from the Church of England, other members of the community had travelled to the New World for largely financial reasons, rather than religious reasons.
Traditional "first Thanksgiving" stories taught in schools tend to erase the true history, and the Native American perspective.
The Narragansett, and many Indigenous Americans, celebrate 13 Thanksgivings a year, and have done so for, perhaps, millennia.
Anne Burras (later, Anne Laydon) was an early English settler in Virginia and an ancient planter.She was the first English woman to marry in the New World, and her daughter Virginia Laydon was the first child of English colonists to be born in the Jamestown, Virginia, colony. [4]
From the food to who was in attendance, here are the details about the origin of one of our favorite holidays. Thanksgiving dates back to 1621 in Plymouth, Massachusetts.