Greenough wrote that The Rescue was meant to "commemorate the dangers & difficulty of peopling our continent, and which shall also serve as a memorial of the Indian race", but also "to convey the idea of the triumph of the whites over the savage tribes"
American whites on the North American frontier in the 19th century were every bit as evil and deranged and Israeli settlers in the West Bank are today.
isn't even that absurd tbh
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American whites on the North American frontier in the 19th century were every bit as evil and deranged and Israeli settlers in the West Bank are today.