Many of the British adventurers came infected with the European attitude toward America, expressed by a man no less than John Donne, who referred to Virginia, which then included North Carolina, as "a spleen to drain ill humours of the body."
They envisioned a continuation of Elizabethan mercantile society. There was no talk, no hope, nor work, but dig gold, wash gold, refine gold. There was, of course, no gold anywhere about.
Never mind that the natives greeted whites with all love and kindness and with as much bounty, after their manner, they could possibly devise. Columbus too had carried back reports about Indian gentleness -- it helped him take 1,600 Indian slaves to Spain on the second voyage.
Oh, that InBred UnUnited Queedumb.
Karma? FUCK.
Many of the British adventurers came infected with the European attitude toward America, expressed by a man no less than John Donne, who referred to Virginia, which then included North Carolina, as "a spleen to drain ill humours of the body."
They envisioned a continuation of Elizabethan mercantile society. There was no talk, no hope, nor work, but dig gold, wash gold, refine gold. There was, of course, no gold anywhere about.
Never mind that the natives greeted whites with all love and kindness and with as much bounty, after their manner, they could possibly devise. Columbus too had carried back reports about Indian gentleness -- it helped him take 1,600 Indian slaves to Spain on the second voyage.
William Least Heat Moon:
https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/you-cant-take-the-michigan-out-of