Re: [Pen-l] Wages of whiteness in 18th and 19th centure pyschic or real

[fmoseley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Quoting Gar Lipow <gar.lipow@xxxxxxxxx>:
> OK so "construction of whiteness" was  symptom rather than a cause of
> settler colonialism. But where does economic history suggest that this
> prosperity came from? Would the following be A) a true statement B) a
> false statement C) such a gross oversimplification that it can't
> really be assigned a truth value?
>
> "The prosperity that fueled settler colonialism after the British were
> kicked out of  half of North America was large based on land and
> natural resources taken from indigenous nations."
>
> Largely true? Largely false? Too oversimplified to be a useful basis
> for discussion?


I would say true, and important for further discussion.  But I would 
add that the prosperity of the antebellum US also came to a large 
extent from the labor of slaves.

Fred


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