Sound Bites -- Provocative excerpts from primary and secondary sources (some with audio commentary)
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191) 31. The ends of this voyage are these: 1. To plant Christian religion. 2. To trafficke. 3. To conquer. Or, to doe all three. (Richard Hakluyt the Elder, "Inducements to the lykinge of the voyadge." David B. Quinn, ed., New American World: A Documentary History of North America to 1612. Vol. 3. New York: Hector Bye, 1979. )
192) What do we mean by "America"? (Wilcomb E. Washburn, "The Meaning of ‘Discovery' in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries." American Historical Review 68.1 [1962]: 1. )
193) We found the people most gentle, loving and faithful, void of all guile and treason, and such as lived after the manner of the Golden Age. (The account of Roanoke by Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe: David B. Quinn, ed., New American World: A Documentary History of North America to 1612. Vol. 3. New York: Hector Bye, 1979. )
194) In Richard Hakluyt the Younger's Discourse of Western Planting, Christian conversion is represented in a way that appears to be gentle and nonviolent, as Hakluyt suggests that the missionaries "plant" themselves in with the natives and learn their culture before inciting them to accept Christianity. While Hakluyt seems to be implying somewhat of an appreciation for native culture, a closer look reveals something quite different, suggesting instead that the culture is not to be appreciated but rather learned and utilized by the English. This advice – to learn something so that it can be used for one's own benefit – is the same advice Hakluyt gives in other sections, particularly in terms of using the land. By applying this same logic to the natives, Hakluyt pushes them into the background, placing them on the same level as the land, and suggesting that like the fields that can easily be made ready for sowing, the natives can easily be made ready to receive the Christian god. (Elizabeth Wambold, Lehigh University )
195) However extravagant the pretension of converting the discovery of an inhabited country into conquest may appear; if the principle has been asserted in the first instance, and afterwards sustained, if a country has been acquired and held under it; if the property of the great mass of the community originates in it, it becomes the law of the land, and cannot be questioned. (John Marshall, Johnson v. M'Intosh, 1823 )
196) The best known form of company-inspired propaganda was the official sermon, such as Robert Gray or William Crashaw preached for the Virginia Company. The occasion for these was some such event as "the said Lord Generall His leaue taking of England his Natiue Countrey, and departure for Virginia." Such discourses appealed to the serious middle class, and by the atmosphere of religious respectability which they threw over colonization helped to combat wild talk in the taverns and the evil tales of returning seamen. (Howard Mumford Jones, "The Colonial Impulse: An Analysis of the 'Promotion' Literature of Colonization." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 90.2 [1946]: 133. )
197) In some respects this ideal picture [the idyllic picture Barlowe paints about the first voyage to Roanoke] helped to create too favorable an impression of the land in England, and may be thought to have contributed to the long-term failure of the1584-90 enterprises. (David Beers Quinn, Set Fair for Roanoke: Voyages and Colonies, 1584-1606. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1985: 32. )
198) Private interests, both with Indians and English are many; yet these things you may and must do: First, kiss truth where you evidently, upon your soul, see it. 2. Advance justice, though upon a child's eye. 3. Seek and make peace, if possible, with all men. 4. Secure your own life from a revengeful, malicious arrow or hatch. I have been in danger of them, and delivered yet from them; blessed be His holy name. (Roger Williams, qtd. by Perry Miller, Roger Williams: His Contribution to the American Tradition. New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1953: 50-51. )
199) For fear they would be left behind, they abandoned all their goods in the greatest confusion and raced to the boats as if a mighty army were on their heels. And indeed they were put to flight by a mighty power, for God Himself stretched His hand against them because of the cruelties and outrages they had committed against the natives. (from an anonymous report on Richard Grenville's voyage to Roanoke in David Quinn, ed., New American World: A Documentary History of North America to 1612. Vol. 3. New York: Hector Bye, 1979: 151-52. )
200) That Rome itself was aware of its precise role in providing spiritual legitimacy to the colonizing desires of Eurpoean feudal potentates in an age of nationalistic expansionism is beyond doubt. (Robert A. Williams, Jr., The American Indian in Western Legal Thought: The Discourses of Conquest. New York: Oxford UP, 1990: 73. )
