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The story most people heard about Thanksgiving from a young age is pretty simple: A group of Pilgrims, fleeing religious persecution, sail to North American and settle on Plymouth Rock.
Here’s what many of us learned in school about Thanksgiving: In 1620, the Pilgrims fled religious suppression in Britain on the Mayflower and arrived at Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts. The ...
Thanksgiving is celebrated in the country in large part due to the nation's founding as a colony of the American Colonization Society in 1821 by former slaves and free people of color from the United States. However, the Liberian celebration of the holiday is notably different from the American celebration.
Traditional "first Thanksgiving" stories taught in schools tend to erase the true history, and the Native American perspective.
Thanksgiving is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November (which became the uniform date country-wide in 1941). [2] [3] Outside the United States, it is sometimes called American Thanksgiving to distinguish it from the Canadian holiday of the same name and related celebrations in other regions.
The traditional "first Thanksgiving" story taught in American schools tends to erase the true history between the Wampanoag tribe and the Pilgrims.
According to the myth, the Pilgrims left England on the Mayflower in search of religious freedom. [2]: 7-8 [3] Although the settlers did include the Separatists, who wanted to break away from the Church of England, other members of the community had travelled to the New World for largely financial reasons, rather than religious reasons.
While this tradition of Thanksgiving dates back over 400 years, the holiday did not become official until the mid-1800s, and the date was not solidified until almost 100 years after that.