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How America's First Settlers Invented Chattel Slavery: Dehumanizing Native Americans and Africans with Language, Laws, Guns, and Religion

How America's First Settlers Invented Chattel Slavery: Dehumanizing Native Americans and Africans with Language, Laws, Guns, and Religion

O'Rourke, David K.
Rauch, Irmengard

Hardcover

Series: Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics, Book 56

General ReferenceGeneral United States HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0820468142
ISBN13: 9780820468143
Publisher: Peter Lang Us
Published: Nov 1 2004
Pages: 212
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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