Manifest destiny framed continental conquest as divinely sanctioned.

Evidence

As the first copies of the Narrative went out, O’Sullivan wrote of White Americans’ “manifest destiny … to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us.” — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 494

Categorization

• CANDY: A quote most people half-know; good for a tweet about how manifest destiny and slavery expansionism shared the same mouth.
• XREF: connects to: Locke justified private land ownership by divinely commanded labor and dominion. — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 360; Philip II’s urgency in 1588 came from a new conviction of divine destiny — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 461; Divine-mission confidence and religious tolerance fueled conquest success — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 243 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Locke justified private land ownership by divinely commanded labor and dominion. — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 360; Philip II’s urgency in 1588 came from a new conviction of divine destiny — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 461; Divine-mission confidence and religious tolerance fueled conquest success — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 243 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Conquistador conquest was motivated by unlimited greed for gold #complicates (0.74)