Will you join us?
What would it take for a person or a family to decide to give up one way of life for another on the other side of the world?
Or,
The reasons for leaving needed to be weighed against the hardships and the very real risks of the long sea journey. The danger of shipwreck was such a real possibility that there was a thriving genre of shipwreck paintings, the equivalent of disaster movies today. Although the First Four ships made the journey successfully, the Randolph was lost at sea in June 1851, just six months after its journey to Canterbury.
- Would it be what you wanted to leave behind?
Or,
- Would it be promises of what lay waiting for you?
The reasons for leaving needed to be weighed against the hardships and the very real risks of the long sea journey. The danger of shipwreck was such a real possibility that there was a thriving genre of shipwreck paintings, the equivalent of disaster movies today. Although the First Four ships made the journey successfully, the Randolph was lost at sea in June 1851, just six months after its journey to Canterbury.
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