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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (33213)3/23/1999 11:58:00 PM
From: Chuzzlewit  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Steven, while I don't doubt for a moment the horrors of colonialism, nor for that matter the abject failure of American colonialists to make slaves of the Indians, I don't believe that these were major factors in the first part of the 19th century. Particularly in view of the fact that the bulk of the Southern agrarian economy was built on slave labor. So the absence of an indigenous conquered people did not play a significant role. The point I was trying to making to Terrence is that much of the economic prosperity we all enjoy is directly linked to a social fabric which recognized the economic, if not human potential in the least of us. So to my mind, the issue is not the exploitation of foreign lands for raw material, it is the wastage of human capital.

Have you ever read Mark Twain's comments on the American occupation of the Philippines?

Don't you mean his essays on the Hawaiian Islands (aka the Sandwich Islands)? If so, yes. A terrible indictment of the missionary system.

It is a great pity that the history of colonialism is so poorly studied

Actually, I think it is quite well studied. If you get a chance, look at MacPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom which chronicles fairly well American colonial expansion in the beginning of the 19th century.

TTFN,
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