The Mayflower Sets Sail
Dan Snow's History Hit
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🗓️ 15 September 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
On the 16th of September 1620, The Mayflower set sail from Southampton to the New World. Aboard were 102 passengers determined to reach a new land, escape the religious persecution they faced and establish a colony. They endured a long and arduous crossing and a brutal first winter which they only survived due to the help of the native Wampanoag people. It was from this first, successful, colony that the United States of America would eventually grow, but it came at a terrible price for the indigenous people of North America.
In this archive episode, originally in 2020 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower setting sail, Dan is joined on the podcast by a series of historians, writers and storytellers, to talk about the journey of the Mayflower. They discuss why the settlers left, and we examine the contested legacy of the Mayflower for the descendants of North American communities.
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| 0:35.2 | So today is the 400nd anniversary of the departure of a little boat, |
| 0:40.4 | little ship that you may have heard of, the Mayflower, |
| 0:42.6 | transported English settlers, puritants across the Atlantic |
| 0:47.0 | to what they call the New World. |
| 0:48.7 | And what would one day be the United States of America? |
| 0:52.8 | They left Plymouth on the 16th of September 16th, |
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