lthough Lord Dunmore persisted in recommending the arming
and emancipation of the blacks, neither the ministry at home nor the
British officers would enter into the plan. Lord George Germain
authorized the confiscation and sale of slaves, even of those who
voluntarily followed the troops. Indians were encouraged to catch them
and bring them in; they were distributed as prizes and shipped to the
West Indies, two thousand at one time, being valued at two hundred fifty
silver dollars each. The English name became a terror to the black man,
and when Greene took the command they flocked in numbers to his
standard. The terms of the peace forbade the British troops to carry
away "negroes or other property." Whichever side he might fight for, the
poor black man earned no gratitude.

Yet in little more than three-quarters of a century the political
complications arising out of the wrongs inflicted on him were to involve
the States that had just won their independence in a civil war in
comparison with which the struggle to throw off the yoke of the
mother-country would appear almost as child's play.

ENGLISH PILGRIMS SETTLE AT PLYMOUTH

A.D. 1620

JOHN S. BARRY

No event in American history is more famous throughout the
world, and none has been followed by results more potent in the
making of this country, than the settlement of the Pilgrims at
Plymouth. This pioneer company, which founded the second
English colony in the New World, was composed of Puritans who
had left the Church of England, and were known as Independents
or Separatists.

In the later years of the sixteenth century the tyranny of the
Ecclesiastical Commission drove multitudes of English churchmen
into the ranks of the dissenters. At last this tyranny, and the
threats of King James I, caused some of the Independents to
leave the country.

An Independent Church, mainly composed of simple country
people, was formed in 1606 at Scrooby, in Nottinghamshire. At
its head were John Robinson, the pastor, and William Brewster,
often called Elder Brewster, who was postmaster at Scrooby.
Robinson was distinguished alike for his learning and his
tolerant spirit. Another leader was William Bradford, then but
seventeen years old. He was afterward Governor of Plymouth
colony for thirty years, and was its historian.

For some time the members of this Church qu