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The Shocking Savagery of America’s Early History
- cpleppert 14y ago"We will even find important interludes of peaceful exchange and adaptation between natives and newcomers. The historical challenge is to find the ebb of conflict as well as the flow. The full story demands subtlety as well as drama."[1] [1] http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112309/savage-new-world-barbarous-years-bernard-bailyn# http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112309/savage-new-world-b...
- coldtea 14y agoWell, that's nothing compared to the shocking savagery of America's later history. From the KKK and Jim Crow laws, to constant wars, to dropping two a-bombs to civilian towns, to overtopping legitimate democratic governments, to medical experiments on unsuspecting latin americans ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala_syphilis_experiment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala_syphilis_experiment ), toto agent Orange, to international murders, to self-righteous global-cop self-appointed role, the list goes on and on...
- a_bonobo 14y agoForgive me, it has been years since I've read Zinn's A People's History Of America, but as far as I remember Zinn described the early settlers in exactly the same light as OP's link does. Or am I remembering the book wrongly?