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Winslow’s letter of 1621
Letter by Edward Winslow, printed in Mourt’s Relation in 1622, describing the harvest feast.
- Dates
- Dec 1621
Connections 3
features
- Harvest feast of 1621 Scholarship & press 1
author
- Edward Winslow 1621 Scholarship & press 1
influenced by
- Alexander Young According to Plimoth Patuxet Museums Scholarship & press 1
Timeline 2 dates
- 1621 Edward Winslow authored Winslow’s letter of 1621
- Dec 1621 Winslow’s letter of 1621
Proof 1 source
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Eye-Witness Account of the 1621 Harvest Celebration (You Are The Historian, Unit 4), Plimoth Patuxet Museums.
Scholarship & press
In a letter to a friend in England, “E.W.” (Pilgrim Edward Winslow) wrote the only eye-witness record of the celebration that survives.
Winslow was at the harvest celebration and is the only person we know who wrote about what happened.
Because the passage describing the event resembled the Thanksgiving feasts popular at his time, he annotated it with a footnote
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