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Podcast: Cascade CounterPoint
Episode: QP: Private Property Saved the Plymouth Pilgrims
Description: Full Text: This Thanksgiving let’s give thanks to the Pilgrims who discovered the life-saving power of private property.
We know the Pilgrims fled England to find religious freedom. And they found it—in Holland. But they found it hard to make ends meet in Holland and fled for America in search of economic freedom.
When they arrived, the Plymouth settlers arranged themselves the only way they knew how: lands were held in common and crops were shared out by need.
It was a disaster. Governor William Bradford complained the most able-bodied workers obje...