Religious Persecution Of Puritans And Native Americans

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Because of religious persecution, the Puritans were forced to leave their land and find new land. In my opinion they are fanatics. They would steal corn, land, and threaten to throw the other crew members overboard for being sick. They were too invested in their religion. The Puritans took corn from the Native Americans because they said “God gave this corn to us”. They did not care whether or not it was theirs or someone else’s, one reason they did this could be, because when you are starving, the body thinks about food and nothing else. So this could be a reason for why they didn’t think of the Natives and how the corn was really there or who planted it. Before they landed, one man said “we should throw the sick overboard”. Ironically, he

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