Colonists
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In the United States, history textbooks focus on the
colonists
’ heroic battle for independence in the Revolutionary War, not on the genocide carried out against their new country’s indigenous population.
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They were pious people, but they were also really aggressive capitalists, and they were accused of extreme forms of profit-making tendencies, compared to the other
colonists.
While governing Hispaniola, he tortured and mutilated natives who didn't bring him enough gold and sold girls as young as nine into sexual slavery, and he was brutal even to the other
colonists
he ruled, to the point that he was removed from power and thrown in jail.
When the
colonists
returned with shipments of the strange new bean, missionaries' salacious accounts of native customs gave it a reputation as an aphrodisiac.
The underlying theme of the series is that a silent majority of
colonists
enjoyed British rule; that the founding fathers were manipulative schemers whose only goal was to draw Britain into a violent civil war; that the American supporters of the revolution and the militia were racist, violent louts, duped into the struggle.
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