Beyond Plymouth Rock: The Deep Beginnings of New England -- A Conversation with Michael J. Simpson
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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What Are the Sassafrases?
Sassafras was the second largest commodity exported, after tobacco, from north america a in the seventeenth century. Sassafras is good for both scurvy and syphilis. It's also known by the local indigenous community, they call it bear corn. The plant grows in the root roots of oak trees,. And it grows out of the oak tree, and it looks like a little thing of corn. So why did you pick those three? Well, it's where the sources led me, mostly. In these particular ones, plants, sassafrases, think were sourceare leading me most.
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