Colonization and Christianity
COLONIZATION AND CHRISTIANITY.
COLONIZATION AND CHRISTIANITY:
A
POPULAR HISTORY
OF THE
TREATMENT OF THE NATIVES
BY THE EUROPEANS
IN ALL THEIR COLONIES.
BY
WILLIAM HOWITT.
Have we not all one father?—hath not one God created us?
Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother?
Malachi ii. 10.
LONDON:
LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS.
1838.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY MANNING AND SMITHSON,
IVY-LANE, PATERNOSTER-ROW.
The object of this volume is to lay open to the public the most extensive and extraordinary system of crime which the world ever witnessed. It is a system which has been in full operation for more than three hundred years, and continues yet in unabating activity of evil. The apathy which has hitherto existed in England upon this subject has proceeded in a great measure from want of knowledge. National injustice towards particular tribes, or particular individuals, has excited the most lively feeling, and the most energetic exertions for its redress,—but the whole wide field of unchristian operations in which this country, more than any other, is engaged, has never yet been laid in a clear and comprehensive view before the public mind. It is no part of the present volume to suggest particular plans of remedy. The first business is to make known the nature and the extent of the evil,—that once perceived, in this great country there will not want either heads to plan or hands to accomplish all that is due to the rights of others, or the honour and interest of England.
West End Cottage, Esher,
June 8th, 1838.
CONTENTS.
1 |
II.
11 |
III.
19 |
IV.
28 |
V.
43 |
VI.
56 |
VII.
62 |
VIII.
92 |
IX.
104 |
X.
119 |
CHAPTER XI.
145 |
XII.
158 |
XIII.
173 |
XIV.
185 |
XV.
202 |
XVI.
252 |
XVII.
272 |
XVIII.
285 |
XIX.
298 |
XX.
312 |
XXI.
330 |
XXII.
356 |
XXIII.
367 |
CHAPTER XXIV.
386 |
XXV.
402 |
XXVI.
417 |
XXVII.
443 |
XXVIII.
469 |
XXIX.
499 |
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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