Paying tribute to both the political skills and the deep
spirituality of Plymouth Colony's guiding light, Schmidt (Sin
Eater, 1996) paints a warm and cohesive picture of William
Bradford's role in that colony's foundation and growth. Orphaned
since childhood, Bradford joined the Puritan movement as a
teenager, and gave up a fairly prosperous life to accompany local
Separatists in their move to the Netherlands. Readers will get a
clear sense of the courage it took to make that break, to defy both
monarch and established church, and to later board a barely
seaworthy ship for a dangerous voyage to an unknown land. Under
Bradford's wise stewardship Plymouth went from a struggling
settlement to a flourishing town, surviving deadly winters,
suspicious local natives, successive waves of poorly supplied
immigrants, fire, rival colonies competing for land and trade, even
an earthquake. The author sifts Bradford's writings for clues to
his character - noting such ambiguities as his near-silence at his
first wife's sudden death - and points out Plymouth's enduring
legacy to this country. (Kirkus Reviews)
Leaving behind a prosperous life in England, William Bradford and
the other Pilgrims traveled on the Mayflower to a strange land in
search of religious freedom. There Bradford established a stable
colony, trying to be fair to both the colonists and the local
Native Americans.
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