As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have committed mass suicide. The women, exhausted by labor, have shunned conception and childbirth . . . Many, when pregnant, have taken something to abort and have aborted. Others after delivery have killed their children with their own hands, so as not to leave them in such oppressive slavery.
James W. LoewenThere's no excuse therefore, for a 1,152 page book. I think we should all be using 300-page paperbacks. These exist.
James W. LoewenPeople have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located, not created, and opinions not backed by evidence cannot be given much weight.
James W. LoewenChristopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from indigenous people in the Western Hemisphere, leading to their near extermination, and the transatlantic slave trade, which created a racial underclass.
James W. LoewenYou go to towns in Massachusetts, Greenfield, first settled in 1686. Wouldnโt it be cool if it said, โGreenfield. First settled c. 13,000 B.P. or approximately 13,000 Before the Present. Resettled.โ Maybe we could say even, โResettled by whites,โ Or, โResettled anyway, 1686.โ It would have a different impact. And of course it would help explain why the town is called Greenfield, because it was a green field and the fields were left by Native people who had already been farming them.
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