Published Thursday, November 23, 2006 by Murray N. Rothbard
Murray Rothbard tells the true story of the Plymouth Colony. "The first successful settlement in New England was something of an accident. By 1617 the Pilgrims had determined to leave the Netherlands, where their youth were supposedly being corrupted by the 'licentiousness' of even the Calvinist Dutch, who, for example, persisted in enjoying the Sabbath as a holiday rather than bearing it as a penance. In mid-December 1620 the Mayflower landed at Plymouth. In a duplication of the terrible hardships of the first Virginia settlers, half of the colonists were dead by the end of the first winter. A major reason for the persistent hardships, for the 'starving time,' in Plymouth as before in Jamestown, was the communism imposed by the company."
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What Really Happened at Plymouth (2.79 MB)