Savage- not domesticated or under human control
Savagery - a cruel or violent quality
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history textbook passage from 1887
If I were an american student reading this it would have shaped my views on native americans because the book claims that native americans were savages who would kill any english man. The majority of the time when they are talking about native americans in this book they are talking about subduing them or conquering them. When in reality it most likely should have been the other way around considering that they were on the land first and then english settlers came and moved them and took their land for their own profit. This would shape how I view native american by showing me early in life that englishmen were "better" that Native americans.
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