Disir
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This is another myth. They were not escaping persecution. They were living in Holland.
The Pilgrims in Holland (the Netherlands)
Although they had religious freedom, life in the Netherlands was not easy. The Separatists had to leave their homeland and friends to live in a foreign country without a clear idea of how they would support themselves. The congregation stayed briefly in Amsterdam and then moved to the city of Leiden. There they remained for the next 11 or 12 years. Most found work in the cloth trades, while others were carpenters, tailors and printers. Their lives required hard work. Even young children had to work. Some older children were tempted by the Dutch culture and left their families to become soldiers and sailors. Their parents feared that they would lose their identity as English people. To make matters worse, the congregation worried that another war might break out between the Dutch and Spanish. They decided to move again.
Who were the Pilgrims? | Plimoth Plantation
They were in the Netherlands BECAUSE they'd already been persecuted by the Church of England, dumbass.
But that isn't why they came here, fucktwit. They had been there over a decade.
They came here because their first choice was to live in England.
Read your own link.
The Separatist church congregation that established Plymouth Colony in New England was originally centered around the town of Scrooby in Nottinghamshire, England. Members included the young William Bradford and William Brewster. Like others who refused to follow the Church of England’s teachings, some of them were harassed, fined or even sent to jail. When they felt they could no longer suffer these difficulties in England, they chose to flee to the Dutch Netherlands. There, they could practice their own religion without fear of persecution from the English government or its church.
And then they moved to the Netherlands where they had religious freedom. Nay?
They were persecuted in their homeland. They had to leave. They ended up in the new world because of that persecution.
They ended up in the new world because they felt that they were losing their identity. It's the same crap that we see when we study groups that moved to the US much later. The first generation tries to hold on to tradition. The second generation lives in two worlds and the third generation doesn't really give a flip about the original tradition.
They weren't escaping jack when they came to the new world.