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The American Holocaust: The Conquest Of The New World
The American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World retells the story about the invasion and occupation of the Americas by western Europeans, but it is told in a way that I have never heard before. From the first Spanish assault against the Arawak people to the US army’s massacre of the Sioux Indians, the indigenous inhabitants of north and south America have endured a great deal of racism slavery, cruelty, brutality, and murder. Author David Stannard does an excellent job of putting everything into view and seeing that what you were thought in junior high is nothing compared to what the indigenous people actually faced. This books contents are remarkably well researched, and its graphic and explicit contents are incredibly convincing. The
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