From New England and Virginia to New Spain and the current Southwest, North America’s founding householders, English and Spanish alike, took the limited European practice of coerced labor and transformed it into a brutal slavery unlike any that had existed in Europe. This story traces the system of language and logic, religion and society, that allowed the settlers to see both Native Americans and Africans as “others” who merited no human status. Cf. peterlang.com
How America’s First Settlers Invented Chattel Slavery
Dehumanizing Native Americans and Africans with Language, Laws, Guns, and Religion
BERKELEY INSIGHTS INLINGUISTICS AND SENIOTICS (56)
by David K. O’Rourke
ISBN 0-8204-6814-2
Peter Lang Publishing
www.peterlangusa.com
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