How America's first settlers invented chattel slavery
Subtitle: dehumanizing native Americans and Africans with language, laws, guns, and religion
By: David K. O'Rourke.
Series: Berkeley insights in linguistics and semiotics,; v. 56
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Slavery -- North America -- History.; Indians, Treatment of -- North America -- History.; Africans -- North America -- Social conditions.; Spaniards -- North America -- History.; English -- North America -- History.; Difference (Psychology) -- History.; Christianity and politics -- North America -- History.; North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; North America -- Ethnic relations.; North America -- Religion.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-203) and index.
Table of contents: title: Language, metaphor and the making of the other; title: Pilgrims and visionaries; title: The prickly preacher of Hispaniola; title: The merchants of Venice and Visby; title: The householder of Zacatecas; title: The seer of Santa Fe, the iconoclast of Atenango; title: Coercion and legitimacy on the banks of the Rio Grande; title: Native resistance and Spanish repression; title: Husbanding the hideous wilderness; title: Stinking fumes and fragrant profits; title: The siren Calafia; title: The timid plowboy and the periwigged folk; title: Laborers in the mystic vineyard.