Of Plymouth Plantation

In the handout of Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford, I have read about four stages of the Pilgrims settling in the United States. The description by Bradford of the Pilgrims is very different than Cullen’s Puritans. And of course Pilgrims are very different than Puritans. If the freedom the Puritans are after is considered to be a negative freedom, the freedom of pursuing no boundary of their religion believes, and then the pilgrims’ freedom should be a positive one. They wanted to achieve the kind of reformation that brings them the most self-realization of spiritual awakening. From first arriving to the new land to signing the Mayflower Compact, they stayed loyal to their faith. Freedom appears both explicitly and implicitly in the passage, especially the freedom of worship.