If there was a genocidal nightmare in America, the German version was much more explicitly ... distilled. Various Midwestern doctor-phrenologists wrote treatise

If there was a genocidal nightmare in America, the German version was much more explicitly ... distilled. Various Midwestern doctor-phrenologists wrote treatises on whether or not freed blacks-former slaves-were human; Der Paperhanger and others read this tripe. Science! The American version was also very slow-motion and not all that universal. If you take the tack of "We Shall Remain", that part of Manifest Destiny looks cast around the time of King Phillip's War. Throw in Jackson's denial of Worcester v. Georgia... Various figures treated the Amerind at least as distinctly human, just ... unfortunately placed. General George Crook seems to be one of the more sympathetic. I'm also biased by Daniel Goldhagen's work in what he calls "eliminationism" and it's not clear that the... management of the Amerind qualifies, by his own words. IMO, Goldhagen clarifies many of the touchy rough edges of "genocide" in an attempt to make it distinct from plain old warfare.