Bonus Minisode - THANKSGIVING

11/28/2024

As our listeners in the US celebrate Thanksgiving, we take a quick look at what we know about the history of this festival versus the popular myth.

Thanks to Nikki Blake from Scooby Addicts for additional research notes for this episode.

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Scott Bailey

11/28/2024 07:29:51 am

Thank you for helping distinguish myth from fact. So much of the American Myth is just that: myth. We were taught them in school as truth but they are really part of our folklore with origins in the Nineteenth Century. After all, why would Paul Revere shout “The British are coming” when he and his target audience were British?

That said, I would like to clarify that it wasn’t the Pilgrims who sold Tisquantum into slavery, but a Captain Thomas Hunt. He was taken to Spain where it is believed he and several others were ransomed by Franciscan friars who saw to their education. He eventually made his way to England where he learned English. He returned back to New England in 1619 to find he was the last of his tribe. The Patuxet, part of the Wampanoag Nation, had been wiped out by leptospirosis.

Bonus Minisode - THANKSGIVING

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