The ‘First Thanksgiving’ Story Covers Up the All Too Real Violence in Early America

4:00am PST - November 24th, 2021    history of thanksgiving - Time

The 17th century is having a moment. In 2019, the world observed the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Virginia. This year marks 400 years since English Pilgrims and Wampanoags allegedly sat down to a three-day feast in territ…