On May 18, 2006, at 7:30 PM, dwayne monroe? wrote:
> There is no question that John Smith was brutal in his
> treatment of Indians and interested in having English
> settlers colonize New England. However, the evidence
> suggests that he viewed the native population as an
> important source of labor. As Salisbury explains,
> Smith "would use military repression in order to force
> the natives to work for their colonial masters." The
> evidence that Smith wanted to use Indians as a labor
> force contradicts Professor Churchill's
> contention that he wanted to see them wiped out.
Aha, but the nazis also valued the jews as an important sorce of labor in addition to wiping them out.
~J