From Chapter 4:
"Curses on You, White Men!" Pilgrims and Indians page 50 "An examination of the invasion of North America by Europeans during the first 150 years after Columbus invites certain generalizations about the motivations and actions of the Spanish and French when compared to the English. The Spanish searched for gold, and cared little for the natives they met and showed them no mercy. The French were more interested in trade, and by the Indian's own accounts, were reasonably kind and tolerant. In a broad sense, during those early years, both the Spanish and the French came to the New World to find something of value to take home to the motherland. Not so, the English. They came to take the land. Some three million North Americans claim an ancestor who was aboard the MAYFLOWER when that ships' first few explorers came ashore at Cape Cod in November,1620, hundreds of miles from their intended destination.
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