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Two Ships: Jamestown 1619, Plymouth 1620, And The Struggle For The Soul Of America
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Provocative . . . Essential Reading For TodayS Polarized Times. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.This Is A Brilliant Conceit, Wonderfully Executed. . . . David S. Reynolds Has Found A New And Compelling Way To Explore The Infinite Complexities Of The American StoryComplexities That Shape Us Still. Jon Meachama Revelatory History Of American Division Through The Prism Of Two Ships Once Widely Used As Symbols In The War Of Ideas Between North And SouthA Struggle Whose Echoes Remain With Us Todayin The Bitterly Polarized Decades Leading Up To The American Civil War, It Was Commonplace To Argue That AmericaS Strife Could Be Traced Back To The Arrival Of Two Ships, Less Than A Year ApartThe White Lion, Which Brought The First Enslaved Africans To Jamestown In 1619, And The Mayflower, Which Brought The Pilgrims To Plymouth Rock In 1620.In A Deeper Sense, David S. Reynolds Shows Us, In This Magnificent Book, Those Two Ships, Invoked By Frederick Douglass And Many Others, Stood For Two Quite Distinct Realities: The Puritans And The Cavaliers, Names And Ideologies Born In The Bloodshed Of The English Civil War. The Virginia Colony, Founded By Royalists, Was Steeped In The Ideas Of Divine Right, Which Flowed Down In Rigid Patriarchal Hierarchies. Plymouth ColonyS Dissenters To The King And His Church, While Hardly Perfect, Carried The Seeds Of A More Egalitarian Political Vision.These Two Ships Of 1619 And 1620 Played A Key Role In The Battle Of Images And Words That Marked The Roiling Fight, And Then War, Over Slavery. As Reynolds Shows, There Was A Long Stretch Of Time In America When Everyone Knew What Cavaliers And Puritans Meant. It Was North Versus South, But More Deeply, It Was About Whether Social Hierarchy Was The Natural Order Of Things.But Then, As America Descended Into The Long Night Of Jim Crow, The Metaphor Of The Two Ships Went To Sleep As Well. The Meaning Of The Mayflower And Of Thanksgiving Changed As They Became Mainstream, Apolitical Ideas. If The Ships Status As Cultural Touchpoints Before The Civil War Tells Us Something Vital About That Conflict, Their Forgetting Afterward Tells Us Much About Why The Road To True Equality Has Proved So Stony. By Dredging Up These Two Ships Dueling Images, The Great David S. Reynolds Enables Us To Make The Same Use Of Them That Frederick Douglass And His Contemporaries Did To Challenge Us, And To Give Us Hope That We Are Up To The Task.
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