Them pilgrims. The reason the word is cited is that William Bradford in his chronicle and also in his poetry referred to them as pilgrims. Not uppercase, big p, famous pilgrims, but as pilgrims, people who went on a journey for religious reasons, went on a journey for personal discovery. And so that use of the word pilgrim gives them a group identity, but we all need to remember they themselves did not have a group identity. They were a very heterogeneous group that had to learn to live together. When you think about how did people sound in colonial new england, aboard mayflower and the first few ships that would follow, there were upwards of 17 different dialect regions represented in plymouth and they lived in an age prior to recording. Very rarely, unless you were in a big city, did you hear anybody speak english in a way other than your own dialect or accent. Imagine what it is like to be aboard ship with people that you are trying to figure out, what is she saying to me . Because
Religious reasons, went on a journey for personal discovery. So that use of the word pilgrims gives them a group identity, but we all need to remember they themselves did not have a group identity. They were a very heterogeneous group that had to learn to live together. When you think about how did people sound in colonial new england, aboard mayflower and the first few ships that would follow, there were upwards of 17 different dialect regions represented in plymouth that plymouth and they lived in an age prior to recording. Very rarely, unless you were in a big city, did you hear anybody speak english in a way other than your own dialect or accent. Imagine what it is like to be aboard a ship with people, you are trying to figure out, what is she saying to me . Accustomed to are watching television to get our news, to have a newscasters accent. We are accustomed to hearing people speak differently than ourselves. Wasnt always the case back in the 1600s. There are Vocabulary Words and
Government, the arrival of the first enslaved africans, the experiences of women, and the enslavement of native americans. Northern Virginia Community college and the office of Historic Alexandria cohosted this event. Welcome. In case you are wondering about cameras, cspan is covering this tonight for us. It will be broadcast may be a week from now. Year, we hold a lecture series in memory of a colleague who passed away a few years ago. Joseph winthrop, a dedicated and compassionate professor and social activist. And thees over there, woman who was married to him for many years is sitting here marilyn, glad to have you with us. Panell complete this tomorrow at the alexandria campus, because we are all professors at the alexandria northern Virginia Community college. Alexandra is a treat for history. And it is a treat to have these professors in a setting like the lyceum. We can rub shoulders with the ghost of the past. Yearhts topic is the 1619, a turning point not only for jamestown b
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