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This is the book's own stage: Governor William Bradford stands in golden light and reads his history aloud — the first 72 seconds of Chapter One of Volume Five, Anno 1642 — Wickedness Breaking Forth, the Ministers' Answers, and the Partners' Final Release, over the book's 36-second stage loop, played twice. The barcode rides every frame — scan any moment to come back to this bookstore.
“Marvilous it may be to see and consider how some kind of wickednes did grow & breake forth here, in a land wher the same was so much witnesed against…”
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From the Middle — Chapter 3: Anno 1644 — Winslow Chosen Governor, the Church Debates Removing, and the Narragansett Complaints
WILLIAM BRADFORD
So many have already left Plymouth for better accommodations elsewhere that the church itself takes up the hardest question of its life: “the church begane seriously to thinke whether it were not better joyntly to remove to some other place, then to be thus weakened, and as it were insensibly dissolved.” Bradford sets down the arguments on both sides, exactly as they were held — the debate from which whole new towns would rise.
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What’s Inside
- Anno 1642–1646, in five chapters — complete, and the end of the history: 20,488 words, Bradford's own text exactly as he wrote it, closing with Winslow detained in England on the colony's business: “he hath now bene absente this 4. years, which hath been much to the weakning of this govermente…” The manuscript's headings for 1647 and 1648 stand empty — Bradford wrote no more annals, and none have been invented for him.
- 2 hours 14 minutes of narration — Governor William Bradford himself stands in golden light on the stage and reads his own history aloud, page by page, in a reading room you can follow with your eyes.
- The plates — the Mayflower Compact in Bradford's own hand (facsimile), Halsall's Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor (1882), and Weir's Embarkation of the Pilgrims (1843).
- The sixth book of the Mayflower line — and the completion of Bradford's history: behind it stand Mourt's Relation · The Mayflower Journal · 1622 and Volumes One, Two, Three and Four of the Plantation history. With Volume Five, all five volumes stand in the talking line — Bradford's whole book, told by his hologram. Every Mayflower edition at $79.
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This is the public-domain text of William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation (Project Gutenberg transcription #24950), presented as a talking hologram book, with all modern editorial matter removed and Bradford's spelling untouched. The narration is a performed reading of that public-domain text, made for this edition. No portrait of Bradford painted from life survives, and the book says so plainly in its disclaimer, which stands first, before the book begins. Editor: Franklin Langston.
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