• LaughingLion [any, any]
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    1 year ago

    reminder that the pilgrims were so smelly and ugly the natives thought they were absolutely disgusting

    • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      And the pilgrims had to keep building walls around their settlements so their "trad wives" wouldn't sneak off in the middle of the night and go and join the nearby native societies that would treat them like people and not like baby factories.

      • iwilljustforget@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        I would love to see a source on this. No really. Being able to shove this as a fact in specific people's faces would make my whole decade. Please have a legitimate source.

        • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          Send me a PM so I remember to check out a source. My "source" at the moment is a cracked.com article circa 2008 or so, so I'm not 100% sure what source they used.

        • LaughingLion [any, any]
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          1 year ago

          there isn't really a definitive source but throughout colonial history in America this was a thing and it was even commented on by people like Ben Franklin