This book makes a wide, conceptual challenge to the theory that the
English of the colonial period thought of Native Americans as
irrational and subhuman, dismissing any intimations to the contrary
as ideology or propaganda. It makes a controversial intervention by
demonstrating that the true tragedy of colonial relations was
precisely the genuineness of benevolence, and not its cynical
exploitation or subordination to other ends that was often the
compelling force behind conflict and suffering. It was because the
English genuinely believed that the Indians were their equals in
body and mind that they fatally tried to embrace them. From an
intellectual exploration of the abstract ideas of human rights in
colonial America and the grounded realities of the politics that
existed there to a narrative of how these ideas played out in
relations between the two peoples in the early years of the colony,
this book challenges and subverts current understanding of English
colonial politics and religion.
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