Throughout time, fear has existed at the root of all man’s emotions when encountering a new people and place. The source of this fear is often a result of experiencing new things that are different from one’s own inherent beliefs and understanding of the world. These encounters lead to the need to immediately designate people into categories based on comparison to one’s own culture.
The English expansionists of the early 17th century were at this crossroad where they were meeting “different” people and traveling to new lands they had never seen before. As early as 1610, correspondence noted the conquests in the “plantation of Ireland and Virginia.” Colonization of these locations was a “defining moment in the making of an English-Americ
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