Four hundred years ago, the English shipMayflowerdeparted Plymouth on a voyage of possibility. Without any guarantee of success, its 102 passengers braved a perilous trans-Atlantic crossing to build a new society in an unknown land. Next spring, another ship dubbedMayflowerwill sail out of that...
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InHopkins of the Mayflower, Margaret Hodges writes, "Adventurers like Stephen broke the chains that bound Englishmen to a fixed and unalterable state of life in a fixed and unalterable society. In their ships they carried . . . ideas, planting the seeds of economic, social, and ethical ...