Written over a period of years by william bradford, the leader of the plymouth. Litcharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in of plymouth plantation, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. This hypertext version provides limited excerpts of chapters 1, 2, 4 and 9 from bradford s text. Full text of of plymouth plantation internet archive. This electronic text was prepared by courtney danforth in september, 1997, for the xroads project of the american studies department at the university of virginia.
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