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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.
It gives a sense of what life was like both for the colonists and for the natives with whom they associated.
The supporting cast of colonists, including Connie Nielsen, Sean Pertwee and a surprisingly hirsute Michael Chiklis, is able.
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.
As the Indian poet and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore put it in his 1936 poem “Ode to Africa,” which played on perceptions about who is “civilized,” the continent fell prey to “civilization’s barbaric greed,” as the colonists “arrived, manacles in hand/Claws sharper by far than any of your wolves.”
The American Revolution can be traced directly to the growing sense among colonists that Parliament's rule in North America was illegitimate.
But, despite legal prohibitions, slavery proved remarkably resilient, with colonists using subterfuges such as debt peonage, “just wars” (which sanctioned enslavement of captured enemies as a more moral outcome than justified slaughter), and other tricks.
Mungiki’s origins can be traced in part to the sons and daughters of Mau Mau fighters, the dispossessed Kikuyu who fought the Kikuyu elite and British colonists in the 1950s.
They used the constant threat and routine application of force and violence to impose slavery, low inward tariffs, and immunity for their colonists.
In the 19th century, European colonists in Africa settled in the cooler mountains to escape the dangerous swamp air (" mal aria ") in the lowlands.
Benjamin Franklin said to the American colonists, “we must hang together or surely we will hang separately.”
The blacks were the remnants of a race of negroes which had been entailed on his estate from Mr. Wharton's maternal ancestors, who were descended from the early Dutch colonists.
"It is, that we do not consider ourselves castaways, but colonists, who have come here to settle."
And that evening, before sleeping, the new colonists talked of their absent country; they spoke of the terrible war which stained it with blood; they could not doubt that the South would soon be subdued, and that the cause of the North, the cause of justice, would triumph, thanks to Grant, thanks to Lincoln!
The colonists, motionless, anxiously awaited the result of this exploration, when a shout from the engineer made them hasten forward.
The colonists had a good supper that evening.
Now, to construct a simple boat even with the necessary tools, was a difficult work, and the colonists not having tools they must begin by making hammers, axes, adzes, saws, augers, planes, etc., which would take some time.
The exploration ended, the colonists found themselves at the north angle of the cliff, where it terminated in long slopes which died away on the shore.
The colonists, walking apart, but not straying far from each other, began to skirt the edge of the lake, which was very steep.
But no signs of this were discovered, and the colonists continued to explore the bank, which, after a slight bend, descended parallel to the shore.
The colonists were about to begin to traverse the plateau to return to the Chimneys, when Top gave new signs of agitation.
The colonists ran towards it.
Besides, the colonists had still at their disposal the little grotto above the great cavern, which was like the garret of the new dwelling.
To avoid it the colonists had been obliged to make a considerable detour, by climbing up to the source of the Red Creek.
These molluscs were of excellent quality, and the colonists consumed some daily.
About this time, the weather being extremely dry, the colonists, clothed as warmly as possible, resolved to devote a day to the exploration of that part of the island between the Mercy and Claw Cape.
The colonists halted at this place for breakfast.
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