Captain John Smith Contributions

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Captain John Smith and William Bradford were writers in the 18th century that have had a great impact on american history itself. These great writers of their time wrote about what they did and what it was like to come to the americas and establish colonies from scratch and what it was like to live and how hard it was to live with perople while trying to make a colony work out with only so many people.
These writers have two very different ways of documenting while one basically only writes about him\self and of his accomplishments the other does the oppisite of that and keeps a very detailed and up to date documentary of \himself and everyone that was on the journey with him.

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