American holocaust chapter 4 summary. Review of Chapter 4 of by David Stannard 2019-02-25
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American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World by David E. Stannard
The Spanish found Hatuey and his people, killed most of them, enslaved the others, and condemned their leader to be burned alive. Now, we should expect it. Even when we did have an idea of the magnitude of destruction that took place, teachers minimized the grandeur of places like Tenochtitlan. If they had long standing bonds of trust or obligation, one would be much more likely to carry out the request. Their impact on the lives of the native peoples they encountered varied, as did their specific intentions. After two weeks of friendly contact with the Indians living around Winyah Bay, Quejo and Gordillo invited them to visit their ships. The most plausible explanation for this observed association is that the a presence of a Major League Baseball team causes the number of divorces to rise perhaps husbands are spending too much time at the ballpark.
Reportedly, as they were tying him to the stake, a Franciscan friar urged him to take Jesus to his heart so that his soul might go to heaven, rather than descend into hell. The metropolis that the Spanish had just months earlier described as the most beautiful city on earth, so dazzling and beguiling in its exotic and brilliant variety, became a monotonous pile of rubble, a place of dust and flame and death. The extent to which each of these forces has shaped Vladek's personality is an interesting and complex question that is not satisfactorily answered in the text. They did their job well. There was exultation in the land. However, it does so in unrelenting detail, cataloguing the, increasingly distressing, numbers of those slain by European invaders and the manner in which they died. Spanish missions were cruel and inhuman places, but so too were the settlements set up by the U.
Even if paid, however, and paid in hard currency, such earnings were far from sufficient for survival. Others were wounded or killed when U. How do we test a religion within the framework of modern standards of Public morality and decency? For almost half a millennium Christians had been launching hideously destructive holy wars and massive enslavement campaigns against external enemies they viewed as carnal demons and described as infidelsâall in an effort to recapture the Holy Land, and all of which, it now seemed to many, effectively had come to naught. The father next brought the wife and placed her in the room. The conquistadors themselves marveled at the feats of engineering performed by the natives, their cleanliness and the health of the population.
Other eruptions of bizarre torture, murder, and ritual cannibalism were not uncommon. After a fortnight, however, all the Poles including Franek are transferred out of the camp. One day the Kapo, Idek, flies into a rage and starts beating Eliezer. When the train arrives in the next town, there are no American troops in sight. Thousands died, either by execution or from deliberate neglect and cruelty.
Night by Elie Wiesel: Chapter Summaries & Analysis
I stopped several times reading the descriptions of the cities and towns and villages to imagine how beautiful it was. At theyr first encountering, they behelde eache the other very wistly a good space, withoute speeche or worde uttered, with greate change of coloure and countenance, as though it seemed the greefe and disdeyne of their captivitie had taken away the use of their tongues and utterance: the woman of the first verie suddaynely, as though she disdeyned or regarded not the man, turned away and beganne to sing, as though she minded another matter: but being agayne broughte togyther, the man brake up the silence first, and with sterne and stayed countenance beganne to tell a long solemne tale to the woman, whereunto she gave good hearing, and interrupted him nothing till he had finished, and, afterwards being growen into more familiar acquaintance by speech, were turned togither, so that I think the one would hardly have lived without the comfort of the other. In Paris and Lyon, Huguenots were killed and butchered, and their various body parts were sold openly in the streets. Then old chief Black Kettle, the principal leader of the Cheyenne, tied a white flag to a lodge pole, and above that he tied an American flag that had been given him by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. The argument by which she convinces her lover to leave is an appeal to his sense of self-preservation â she might be just as prejudiced against Jews as any Nazi. It goes on in this manner a year or two and they die. As one historian has noted, the contrast in regal manner between the Indian and British leaders was especially extreme at the time of the British settlement of Virginia, because England was then ruled by King James I who was notorious for his personal filthiness, his excessive and slobbering ways of eating and drinking, and his vulgar and boorish style of speech and overall behavior.
Stannard makes regular use of comparisons between the new American Government of the 1800s and the dictatorial regime of Nazi Germany. It is an ideology that remains dangerously alive today, he adds, and one that in recent years has surfaced in American justifications for large-scale military intervention in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. In reality, it has been concentrated in the hands of a few, and take out of the every-day lives of most people. Stannard reveals that wherever Europeans or white Americans went, the native people were caught between imported plagues and barbarous atrocities, typically resulting in the annihilation of 95 percent of their populations. Other than small dogs in some locations and llamas in the Andes, few animals were domesticated anywhere in the hemisphere. But few saw their day of liberation. It was flatly and intentionally genocidal.
American Holocaust : Columbus and the Conquest of the New World by David E. Stannard
Hundreds of men watch as a single man crawls to the soup, thrusts his head into the liquid, and then dies. As in those other locales, Indians were flogged, hanged, drowned, dismembered, and set upon by dogs of war as the Spanish and others demanded more gold and silver than the natives were able to supply. Then, the foreman demands Eliezer's gold crown and begins abusing his father for two weeks when Eliezer refuses to give it to him. Then he destroyed the great aqueduct that brought fresh water to the city. Stannard deals with the question of the diseases the Europeans inadvertently brought with them though eventually a few enterprising pioneers of Biological warfare hit on the idea of giving Native Americans blankets which had previously been used by small pox victims for which Native Americans had no immunity.
Americans of today are taught to revere the leaders of the past, to elevate their memories to almost mythical status, to see them not as mortal men but as nearing the level of demi-gods. For years historians have speculated as to what the epidemic was that laid low so many Spaniards and killed so many native people. And we shall take your goods, and shall do you all the mischief and damage that we can, as to vassals who do not obey and refuse to receive their lord and resist and contradict him. But unlike the island natives the European invaders and their forebears had lived with epidemic pestilence for ages. It is disconcerting to think about what we the humans have done to our own race. Wasn't it all a matter of interpretation? The Crusades, begun four centuries earlier, had increased the appetites of affluent Europeans for exotic foreign luxuriesâfor silks and spices, fine cotton, drugs, perfumes, and jewelryâmaterial pleasures that required pay in bullion. A book that took a long time to finish.
The Bataan Death March happened in 1942 in the Philippines when American and Filipino soldiers were marched for days in the scorching heat through the Philippine jungles. In fact I was thinking of how to get farther away so that I would not be hit myself. The sight of so many relaxed people â Vladek among them, to some extent â highlights just how exhaustingly tense the war has been. Within a century following their first encounter with the Spanish, 94 to 96 percent of their once-enormous population had been exterminated; along their 2000 miles of coastline, where once 6,500,000 people had lived, everyone was dead. Even some otherwise unsympathetic settler newspapers observed and protested this situation to no avail , since in consequence it encouraged and legalized the open-season hunting of Indians. Other hundreds were killed in successful plots of mass poisoning.
If land was inhabited by those who did not use it in this way, then the righteous were entitled to seize it, if necessary by killing the occupants. Chapters: 8-9 Chapter 8: Upon their arrival at Buchenwald, Eliezer's father is unable to move. She repeatedly told Vladek that she no longer wanted to live. Tricking Montezuma into believing they came in peace, Cortez and his soldier's killed the ruler and attacked the city. It was perhaps a bit more space than was allotted a captive African in the hold of a slave ship sailing the Middle Passage. I was taught many myths, and they were reinforced until they were finally corrected when I was a college student.
