Kinder, lernt!
(Englisch)

The people we know as the Pilgrims have become so sourrounded with legends that we tend to forget that they were real people. Against great odds, they courageously made the famouse 1629 voyage and founded the first New England colony, but they were still ordinary English men and women, not super heroes. If we really want to understand them, we must try to look behind the legends and see them as they saw themselves.
They were English people who sought to escape the religious controversies and economic problems of their time by emigrating to America. Many of the Pilgrims were members of a Puritan sect known as Seperatists. They believend that membership in the Church of England violated the biblical percepts for true Christians, and that they had to break away and form independend congregations which were truer to divine requirements...