"There was never a time, over a half century of settlement, when there was not a racial conflict in one of the European colonies in coastal North America...concerted wars of devastation different from the precontact Indian wars and beyond the rules of civilized warfare, the principles of just war, and Christian moderation..."
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"Only twice in the long litany of wars, raids, and scortched-earth retribution were there moments of serious doubt and reflection among the Europeans about the moral grounds of the conflicts they were engaged in...Only for the Dutch, arguably the most ferocious of the Indian fighters, were the moral issues confronted as such."
-The Barbarous Years, Bernard Bailyn, chapter 15 "The British Americans," pp 497, 499.
Image: The Pequot Massacre (1637).
