Virginian colonists’ atrocities against native peoples demanded a collective psychic adjustment

Evidence

More recently, while reviewing these beginnings, Edmund Morgan, reconstructing the relations of the earliest Virginian colonists with native peoples, summarized the collective psychic state that he felt must have accompanied the cycle of atrocities that would extend ultimately into the present century: If you were a colonist, you knew that your technology was superior to the Indians’. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 410

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Land-hungry settlers drove Anglo-Americans to provoke the Seven Years’ War; Colonial hysteria manifested in murderous acts for settlers but suicide-like self-exposure for the colonized; Colonial psychology shifts blame for colonial violence onto the colonized — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 161 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Land-hungry settlers drove Anglo-Americans to provoke the Seven Years’ War; Colonial hysteria manifested in murderous acts for settlers but suicide-like self-exposure for the colonized; Colonial psychology shifts blame for colonial violence onto the colonized — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 161 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Colonial psychology shifts blame for colonial violence onto the colonized #complicates (0.72) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 161