Episode 128: Two Thanksgivings and No Pilgrims: Florida's First Thanksgivings

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If you thought the Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving in the present-day United States in Plymouth, well, you've been lied to. Cathy and Rick talk about the first and second Thanksgivings, both of which happened in Florida, and why the 16th-century French Huguenot Thanksgiving — celebrated in what is now Jacksonville — may be the only of the first three that didn't celebrate the darkest parts of our national origin story.

Links We Mentioned

The French first Thanksgiving in North America

LeMoyne engravings of French first Thanksgiving

Michael Gannon and the "Grinch who stole Thanksgiving"

How the Mayflower arrived in a world already scarred by slavery.

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1. Episode 128: Two Thanksgivings and No Pilgrims: Florida's First Thanksgivings (00:00:00)

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