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A 3 page essay that discusses the ways in Native Americans and slaves resisted domination. Rationalization for the history of white supremacy in North America has rested largely on the idea that white dominance was for the "good" of suppressed peoples. Early English settlers proposed that they were bringing Christianity and "civilization" to Native Americans. Southern slave-owners liked to picture themselves as good Christians who "rescued" blacks from African savagery. From the inception of white dominance, the behavior of these oppressed groups illuminated the lies of rationalization through their multiple acts of resistance. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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English settlers proposed that they were bringing Christianity and "civilization" to Native Americans. Southern slave-owners liked to picture themselves as good Christians who "rescued" blacks from African savagery. From the
inception of white dominance, the behavior of these oppressed groups illuminated the lies of rationalization through their multiple acts of resistance. The behavior of the first Native Americans
to come in contact with English settlers provides an example for this point. The chieftain Openchancanough tolerated numerous insults from the invading English in the early seventeenth century before being
pushed to the point of retaliation. On one occasion, John Smith led an armed contingent of Englishmen into Openchancanoughs enclave in search of food. When the native people refused to
supply food to the English, Smith grabbed the chieftain and held a pistol to his chest till his people capitulated (Fausz 25). Furthermore, Smith threatened to fill his ship with
the "dead carkasses" of natives if they ever again dared to thwart his will (Fausz 25-26). In 1609, a chaotic period, in which the English were unrestrained in robbing and
murdering Native Americans, escalated into full-scale warfare(Fausz 26). Openchancanough and his warriors were the most successful of the Native American forces in battle. In November of 1609, they decimated the
English who had come to steal corn and the result was that the English colony waited until 1613 before their leaders were sufficiently confident to invade Native American territory again
(Fausz 26). Throughout the First Anglo-Powhatan War and its aftermath, Openchancanough used every means at his disposal to consolidate his power over all of the Native Americans in Tidewater
Virginia and to lull the English into believing that he was capitulating to their dominance. Openchancanough successfully manipulated the missionary idealists among the English, through giving them permission to indoctrinate
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