Historical Ideas Thanksgiving

One thing we want to encourage families to do is TELL THE TRUTH about our history.  Past generations didn’t want to talk about it simply because they didn’t want to change their minds.  But this generation of Americans is ready, and here’s one way to demonstrate the change of heart.

Simply add a leg iron display to your table or side table.

But, why?

Remember Squanto?  Depending on your age he may be a bit of a fuzzy detail, but he was the Patuxet Wampanoag Indian who spent the spring and summer of 1621 teaching  the Mayflower Pilgrims how to survive in their new home.

The irony is that he knew how to speak clear English because he had been a victim of the slave trade at the hand of earlier English men.  Squanto actually lived in Europe for five years.  As it turned out he was fortunate enough to have been hired as a scout, which is how he landed back home a year or so before the Mayflower touched shore at Cape Cod.

Learn more about Squanto’s fascinating life, and about the slave trade in 1620-21 in The American Patriot’s Treasury of Historical Thanksgiving Dinner Ideas, Second Edition

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Leg-Irons and Grapes

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Posted August 31, 2009 by Admin under Decorating

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