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Thanksgiving is thought to be modeled on a 1621 harvest meal between the Wampanoag people and English colonists known as Pilgrims.

Students of history will note that one of the reasons why the American colonies became the United States was because colonists got tired of King George III arbitrarily prosecuting those who disagreed with him.

The ships were loaded with guns and other munitions, gold, silver, foodstuffs, livestock, and nearly a thousand sailors and Protestant colonists called Huguenots seeking freedom in the New World.

Together, they persuasively built that riveting argument that the American Revolution was not a simple battle between American colonists and British redcoats.

While the Patriots, colonists seeking an independent America, rhapsodized about freedom, the British actually offered it to enslaved Black people, successfully recruiting many to fight for the Loyalists, colonists seeking to remain British subjects.