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Book Review:
The Forgotten History of America: Little Known Conflicts of Lasting Importance from the Earliest Colonists to the Eve of the Revolution - By Cormac O'Brien (New York: Crestline, 2018)
By Jennifer Rose
The Forgotten History of America is a great supplement to the U.S. public school curriculums, which I found informative, wonderfully illustrated, and exciting to read.
There are exciting accounts of the first European colonists from Spain who landed in Florida, where they ran across hostile Native tribes, and their hated religious heretic rivals -- the protestant French Huegonets -- who they narrowly defeated and then, upon their conditional surrender after a promised amnesty, summarily executed in a treacherous massacre!
I learned that Estaban the Black, a Spanish Moor and slave, was the first Afrikan to set foot in North America (Turtle Island). He made the hard fought journey through the hostile Native tribal territories from Florrida across the Gulf Coast Woodlands to Mexico.
Also, I was excited to read about Ann Hutchinson, who went against the Puritan religious leaders, and the patriarchy that governed the Plymouth Colony. She dared to organize her own private Bible studies at home, and claimed to communicate with God (similarly to Joan of Arc)! She was put on trial and banished from the Plymouth Colony -- whereafter she moved with her family/supporters to join other religious minorities/political dissidents in Rhode Island.
I recommend this book to U.S. History students, and college/university professors on the earliest white settlers and first "Amerikan" Colonists! #freetheland #frreetheisland, #noprisonnopipelines, #freelandsfreepeoples, #decolonize, #loveanddefendmotherearth.
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