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  • gyzosnebi321 [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Indigenous people in what's now the US were enslaved (and exported to the Caribbean) by the English. Let's not forget this either. https://www.npr.org/2016/06/21/482874478/forgotten-history-how-the-new-england-colonists-embraced-the-slave-trade

    http://commonplace.online/article/indian-slavery-in-new-england/

    Let's also not forget the thousands upon thousands of indigenous people in Central and South America and the Caribbean who were enslaved by the Spanish. It wasn't just "germs" that killed them. It was the process of colonial violence, dispossession, enslavement, and resource extraction, in conjunction with Eurasian diseases. This is a very good paper debunking the "virgin soils" theory that's been promoted by people like Jared Diamond and Alfred Crosby. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3491697#metadata_info_tab_contents