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Speaker 1: So the real story of Thanksgiving. It is a tradition

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Speaker 1: I think to most people, and this time of year,

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Speaker 1: their pleasant ones. It takes me to the true story

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Speaker 1: of Thanksgiving. It was written about in chapter six of

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Speaker 1: c I Told You So book Too. It's the chapter

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Speaker 1: titled Dead White Guys or what the History Books Never

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Speaker 1: tell You. And this chapter, by the way, served as

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Speaker 1: the foundation for the first book in the Rush Revere series,

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Speaker 1: Rush Revere in The Brave Pilgrims, we're in addition to

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Speaker 1: the true story of Banksgiving, we have the true story

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Speaker 1: of the Pilgrims, who they were, where they came from,

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Speaker 1: Revere Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional American series, which is

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Speaker 1: written for young people. Why did the Pilgrims risk everything

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Speaker 1: to get on a rickety little ship Compared to ships

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Speaker 1: what they were fleeing was religious persecution. Now the real

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Speaker 1: story of Thanksgiving. And I wasn't even taught the whole

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Speaker 1: was taught that Thanksgiving was about the Pilgrims being saved

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Speaker 1: all of that, and Thanksgiving was the Pilgrims inviting the

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Speaker 1: the Native Americans. Everybody has been taught a version of that,

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Speaker 1: But ladies and gentlemen, it isn't true. The story the

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Speaker 1: Pilgrims begins in the early part of the seventeenth century.

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Speaker 1: For those of you in Rio Linda, that would be

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Speaker 1: those who challenged that, those who believe strongly in freedom

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Speaker 1: So a group of separatists, people that didn't want any

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Speaker 1: At sail there were one passengers, including forty Pilgrims. The

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Speaker 1: They were led by men and William Bradford. On the journey,

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Speaker 1: Bradford set up an agreement, a contract that established well

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Speaker 1: all members of the new community quote unquote, irrespective of

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Speaker 1: not why George Washington proclaimed the first Thanksgiving holiday. The

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Speaker 1: celebrate that today. But Thanksgiving is actually explained in textbooks

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Speaker 1: the Pilgrims Thanksgiving was a thanks to God for helping

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Speaker 1: look at George Washington's first Thanksgiving proclamation. When Thanksgiving became

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Speaker 1: even share excerpts from it before we're through here today.

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Speaker 1: But let me move on. You cannot escape the fact

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Speaker 1: following the pilgrim's arrival. Now here's the part that's been

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Speaker 1: All the land they cleared, the houses they built, they

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Speaker 1: equal share no matter what, There were some lazy sloths. Yes,

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Speaker 1: now here's here's where this gets good. William Bradford, the

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Speaker 1: Had none of that happened, had had the had the

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