- Apr 2024
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human.libretexts.org human.libretexts.org
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Fueron (completed action)
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- Oct 2022
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rampages.us rampages.us
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Like work, nature was integral to life.
Nature is necessary for life, yet we abuse it
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not with the samegenocidal recklessness that characterized life and death in the Americas after 1492.1
Truly a horrific genocide. "In the ensuing email exchange, Thornton indicated that his own rough estimate is that about 12 million Indigenous people died in what is today the coterminous United States between 1492 and 1900" (From "Counting the Dead: Estimating the Loss of Life in the Indigenous Holocaust. 1492-Present" by David Michael Smith)
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holistic,
" relating to or concerned with wholes or with complete systems rather than with the analysis of, treatment of, or dissection into parts" (Merriam-Webster).
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Putting most humans into thecategory of Nature rather than Society enabled an audacious act of frontier bookkeeping
Interesting. Contradicts the usual definition of society, which revolves around humans.
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In that time they would be schooled not just in Christ but in the propervalue of dividing humanity and nature through work, while the Spanish reaped the silver and theirlives
Powerful sentence. Also summarizes Spanish colonization and the genocide of the Indigenous People
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If colonization was to proceed, God had to be okaywith it.
Catholicism above all else
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If the Indians were unsinningand ignorant, the property scooped up by the Spanish conquest and the Indigenous labor applied to itwere acquired illegitimately.9
False justification for colonization and forced labor
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In the end, itwas resolved that although Indigenous People aren’t part of society, they might escape their place innature through generations of labor
Another twisted attempt at providing justification for slavery
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If they refused to accept this newswith an embrace of their new monarchs in Iberia and the pope in Rome, provisions of warfare similarto those of the Crusades could sanction their enslavement.
Used this idea of "ignorance" as justification for slavery
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What people knew, and didn’t know, became the proper subject of the state, forthe purposes of acquiring and managing a labor force.
Used this idea of "ignorance" as justification for slavery
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Humans were a spoil of war, seized in the expansion ofterritorial control, and a means of repaying debts owed to the bankers of the holy war.
Dehumanizing and objectifying
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Because slaves were part of the fabric of his life in Europe.
Explains why he views human beings as profit. He's been completely desensitized to the horrors of slavery
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“Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go onsending all the slaves that can be sold
Motivated by greed
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But he could appraise one component of the fauna quite well:the humans
Extremely dehumanizing
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lamented his ignorance about the potential commercialreturns of its unfamiliar flora and fauna.
Views the environment as a means to profit
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