Peter Mancall

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Something You Should Know · The Real Story of Thanksgiving - Bonus Holiday Episode · 12 Nov 2025 podcast

So one of the things that we know that happened is that each of them, that's the pilgrims on the one hand and the natives on the other hand, each of them seemed pretty eager to trade with the other.

So that initial moment,

is not a moment of enormous suspicion.

It seems more a moment of, hey, what can you do for me?

Thank you very much for having me.

Well, we know from some of the documents that in the autumn of 1621, the Pilgrims and their nearby native neighbors, Wampanoags, got together for an autumn celebration and

that according to one of the documents lasted about three days and they sort of sat and shared food and feasted together.

The documentary record is not particularly thick on this, but we do have two observations for something that happened in 1621 and then we have a somewhat more detailed account of what happened in 1623.

But I think we can be fairly certain that they did get together.

It had been a terrible winter.

For the pilgrims, it arrived in 1620.

About half of the pilgrims didn't even survive that first winter.

They suffered from scurvy and malnutrition.

And so when they got to the autumn of 1621, that first harvest time, it was really a time of great celebration because I think it signaled to many of them that though they believed they would survive, they certainly hoped that God would take care of them.

Here was real proof that they would be able to make it in New England.

So we know that other Europeans had been in this part of the Atlantic coast before the Pilgrims arrived.

The Pilgrims arrived in late 1620.

So we know, for example...

that the French explorer Champlain had been in the area.

And we know that Captain John Smith, who we associate more famously with Jamestown, early Virginia, we know that he had been there.

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