On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 00:21:00 +0000, Anonymous <
an...@anon.net> wrote:
>We tried to buy what we needed
Louisiana Purchase - what the United States bought was the
"preemptive" right to obtain "Indian" lands by treaty or by conquest,
to the exclusion of other colonial powers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase
Dances with Wolves - An epilogue states: "Thirteen years later --
their homes destroyed, their buffalo gone -- the last band of free
Sioux submitted to white authority at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. The
great horse culture of the plains was gone, and the American frontier
was soon to pass into history."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dances_with_Wolves
>negro slaves - who would have been
>killed and eaten if they hadn't been sold into slavery
Unknown about that aspect....population overgrowth does have
consequences
"Slavery existed in Africa before Europeans arrived. However, their
demand for slave labour was so great that traders and their agents
searched far inland, devastating the region. Powerful African leaders
fuelled the practice by exchanging enslaved people for goods such as
alcohol, beads and cloth.
Britain became the world’s leading slave-trading country.
Transatlantic slavery was especially lucrative because ships could
sail with full holds on every stage of their voyage, making large
profits for merchants in London, Bristol and Liverpool.
Around 12 million Africans were enslaved in the course of the
transatlantic slave trade. Between 1640 and 1807, British ships
transported about 3.4 million Africans across the Atlantic."
https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/history-transatlantic-slave-trade