In 1620, another group of 101 English men, women and children arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts. We know these people, who had very strong ideas about religion, as the ‘Pilgrims’, or ‘Pilgrim Fathers’. They did not want to live in England because they did not agree with the Church of England, so they sailed to America in a ship called the Mayflower. They became not only farmers, but also businessmen who bought and sold animal skins. They thought that all men were equal and so they did not have slaves.