William Howitt
Colonization and Christianity
A popular history of the treatment of the natives by the / Europeans in all their colonies
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664590053
Table of Contents
CHAPTER II. THE DISCOVERY OF THE NEW WORLD.
CHAPTER III. THE PAPAL GIFT OF ALL THE HEATHEN WORLD TO THE PORTUGUESE AND SPANIARDS.
CHAPTER IV. THE SPANIARDS IN HISPANIOLA.
CHAPTER V. THE SPANIARDS IN HISPANIOLA AND CUBA.
CHAPTER VI. THE SPANIARDS IN JAMAICA AND OTHER WEST INDIAN ISLANDS.
CHAPTER VII. THE SPANIARDS IN MEXICO.
CHAPTER VIII. THE SPANIARDS IN PERU.
CHAPTER IX. THE SPANIARDS IN PERU—CONTINUED.
CHAPTER X. THE SPANIARDS IN PARAGUAY.
CHAPTER XI. THE PORTUGUESE IN BRAZIL.
CHAPTER XII. THE PORTUGUESE IN BRAZIL,—CONTINUED.
CHAPTER XIII. THE PORTUGUESE IN INDIA.
CHAPTER XIV. THE DUTCH IN INDIA.
CHAPTER XV. THE ENGLISH IN INDIA.—SYSTEM OF TERRITORIAL ACQUISITION.
CHAPTER XVI. THE ENGLISH IN INDIA—CONTINUED. TREATMENT OF THE NATIVES.
CHAPTER XVII. THE ENGLISH IN INDIA, CONTINUED.—TREATMENT OF THE NATIVES, CONTINUED.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE ENGLISH IN INDIA, CONTINUED.
CHAPTER XIX. THE ENGLISH IN INDIA,—CONCLUDED.
CHAPTER XX. THE FRENCH IN THEIR COLONIES.
CHAPTER XXI. THE ENGLISH IN AMERICA.
CHAPTER XXII. THE ENGLISH IN AMERICA—SETTLEMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA.
CHAPTER XXIII. THE ENGLISH IN AMERICA TILL THE REVOLT OF THE COLONIES.
CHAPTER XXIV. TREATMENT OF THE INDIANS BY THE UNITED STATES.
CHAPTER XXV. TREATMENT OF THE INDIANS BY THE UNITED STATES,—CONTINUED.
CHAPTER XXVI. THE ENGLISH IN SOUTH AFRICA.
CHAPTER XXVII. THE ENGLISH IN SOUTH AFRICA,—CONTINUED.
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE ENGLISH IN NEW HOLLAND AND THE ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC.
COLONIZATION AND CHRISTIANITY.
CHAPTER I.
These are they, O Lord!
Who in thy plain and simple gospel see
All mysteries, but who find no peace enjoined,
No brotherhood, no wrath denounced on them
Who shed their brethren’s blood! Blind at noon-day
As owls; lynx-eyed in darkness.—Southey.
Christianity has now been in the world upwards of One Thousand Eight Hundred Years. For more than a thousand years the European nations have arrogated to themselves the title of Christian! some of their monarchs, those of most Sacred and most Christian Kings! We have long laid to our souls the flattering unction that we are a civilized and a Christian people. We talk of all other nations in all other quarters of the world, as savages, barbarians, uncivilized. We talk of the ravages of the Huns, the irruptions of the Goths; of the terrible desolations of Timour, or Zenghis Khan. We talk of Alaric and Attila, the sweeping carnage of Mahomet, or the cool cruelties of more modern Tippoos and Alies. We shudder at the war-cries of naked Indians, and the ghastly feasts of Cannibals; and bless our souls that we are redeemed from all these things, and made models of beneficence, and lights of God in the earth!
It is high time that we looked a little more rigidly into our pretences. It is high time that we examined, on the evidence of facts, whether we are quite so refined, quite so civilized, quite so Christian as we have assumed to be. It is high time that we look boldly into the real state of the question, and learn actually, whether the mighty distance between our goodness and the moral depravity of other people really exists. Whether, in fact, we are Christian at all!
Have bloodshed and cruelty then ceased in Europe? After a thousand years of acquaintance with the most merciful