Reading the article I can draw some distinct comparisons to the United States colonies in the sixteen hundreds at the helm of people like Cotton Mather. He may

Reading the article I can draw some distinct comparisons to the United States colonies in the sixteen hundreds at the helm of people like Cotton Mather. He may have been a decent local leader if England hadnt insisted on bleeding the US dry to pay for war. Instead he rose quickly to power and not only doubled down on his west african savage rhetoric in order to preserve what would now be considered libertarian ethos, but helped to cement a 200 year old legacy of racist and prejudice thinking in the united states. Much of the reason interracial marriage was shunned throughout american history is due to prejudice he introduced intentionally to avoid marriage conditions rendering slaves automatically freed. Mather worked directly to oppose englands emancipation laws from being extended into the colonies, as it would have restricted the ability to trade on the open market (specifically cotton) and continued US dependence upon the crown.