What Is American Colonialism?

Colonialism, its mere definition to paraphrase states to occupy a new territory with the country of origin’s population called settlers then exhort its natural resources for the mother country. The complexity of American colonialization stems from the premise to seek freedom. This freedom came in many forms such as social mobility, political freedom, religious freedom, and wealth. Unfortunately, their freedom came at a very high cost to the indigenous people, the people of Africa and their vey souls. Their (the settlers) salacious appetite for power and money, far outweighed any religious or spiritual worlds they hoped to embody in this New World. John Heckewelder, a missionary like all missionaries with God as his excuse, helps to destroy by his own account, the native …show more content…
As we have had many classroom discussions on the propaganda spread by the early settlers to their countryman of Europe. Colonial travel brochures and walking billboards they were. Spreading the news of great riches to be had along with the religious freedom they so desired. John Winthrop a Puritan “legacy” immortalized by Cotton Mather. Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony had started with the ideal of “selfless community”. But soon realized that was impossible. Through the internal conflicts within the community by separate factions wanting a certain autonomy to the “brutal war” with the Pequot Indians materialism won out over the Christian belief, “Love your Enemies, do good to them that hate you. Matthew 5.44. (p 179) . The social climate of the time can be fashioned by the phrase made popular by the Rodney King riots “Can’t we all just get along?” to “I’m getting what’s mine and yours!” Unfortunately the indigenous people were the losers on all fronts, their land, their spirituality, their