“Planting of countries is like the planting of woods for you must make an account to leese almost twenty years’ profit, and expect your recompense in the end. Of Plantations read more… Don’t be greedy We would have overwhelmed the aboriginal inhabitants eventually since agriculture supports larger populations, but it could have happened more gradually, with less bigotry and violence. Justice and courtesy would have gone a long way in making English colonization more successful in the long run. He was convinced, as all Europeans were, of the vast superiority of their own cultures and practices. Toward the end, he adds, “If you plant where savages are, do not only entertain them, with trifles and gingles, but use them justly and graciously, with sufficient guard nevertheless and do not win their favor, by helping them to invade their enemies, but for their defense, it is not amiss and send oft of them, over to the country that plants, that they may see a better condition than their own, and commend it when they return.”
For else it is rather an extirpation, than a plantation.” Could there be a milder response to the violent conflicts between English and Indian? “I like a plantation in pure soil that is, where people are not displanted, to the end, to plant in others.
Opechancanough, Powhatan’s brother, from Captain John Smith’s 1624 Generall Historie
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