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Comparing Mourt's Relation And On Plymouth Plantation

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When looking at “Mourt’s Relation” and On Plymouth Plantation, the reader sees William Bradford’s perspective on the New World and the Native Americans that inhabited it. In 1622, when Bradford helped write “Mourt’s Relation,” he was encouraging people to join him and his group of Puritans to settle in the New World. Therefore, he describes it as “so goodly a land” and the harbor as one “wherein a thousand sail of ships may safely ride” (Bradford, Winslow 1). This is much different from his later writing in 1630 where he describes the New World as “a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men” (Bradford 1) Furthermore, this change Bradford’s account is because of the change of audience. When the author was encouraging
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