Two Ships: Jamestown 1619, Plymouth 1620, and the Struggle for the Soul of America

Two Ships: Jamestown 1619, Plymouth 1620, and the Struggle for the Soul of America

Two Ships: Jamestown 1619, Plymouth 1620, and the Struggle for the Soul of America traces how the political and religious divisions of England’s Civil War became a powerful metaphor for abolitionism and slavery prior to the United States Civil War. Author David S. Reynolds, a distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, spoke to Abraham Kenmore about the book a few weeks after its publication in early June. …