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Mar 4, 1552
Historia general de las Indias
Historia general de las Indiasby Francisco Lopez de Gomara. Lopez de Gomara proposes that human diversity is a blessing: "One of the marvellous things that God useth in the composition of man is colour... -
Colony of Roanoke
1585-1587: Colony of Roanoke - a free society of Africans, Indians, and Europeans. "The Roanoke story that has been recorded and remembered to this day is a white story, the first specifically white tale in English North America...But the more likely story suggests...that the people of Roanoke joined the people all around them; that they shed their separateness like a useless cloak..." -
Pequot War
1635-1637: The Pequot War: "...the first major conflict among allied English-native forces and the natives' unforgettable introduction to the Englishman's military tactic of wholesale extermination."