TWO SHIPS: Jamestown 1619, Plymouth 1620, and the Struggle for the Soul of America

In the bitterly polarized decades leading up to the American Civil War, it was commonplace to argue that America's strife could be traced back to the arrival of two ships--the White Lion, which brought the first enslaved Africans to Jamestown in 1619, and the Mayflower, which brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth Rock in 1620. Illus.