HOW AMERICA'S FIRST SETTLERS INVENTED CHATTEL SLAVERY by David K. O'Rourke ( 9780820468143 )

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HOW AMERICA'S FIRST SETTLERS INVENTED CHATTEL SLAVERY
DEHUMANIZING NATIVE AMERICANS AND AFRICANS WITH LANGUAGE, LAWS, GUNS, AND RELIGION

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David K. O'Rourke

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0820468142

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9780820468143

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PETER LANG PUBLISHING INC

Series:

Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics 56

Pages:

210

Synopsis:

From New England and Virginia to New Spain and the current Southwest, North America's founding householders--English and Spanish alike--took the limited European practice of coerced labor and, over the course of two hundred years, transformed it into a depersonalized and brutal chattel slavery unlike anything that had existed in Europe. What system of language and logic, what visions of religious and civil society, allowed men who saw themselves both as Christians and cultured humanists to dehumanize and enslave people whose cultures and accomplishments were evident to nearly all? In this book we observe the progressive development of a mindset that allowed the settlers to see both Native Americans and Africans as « others who did not merit human status.

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